"The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told."

-- Alan Dershowitz

#Lying Quotes #Law Quotes #Freedom Of Speech Quotes

“If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.”
“In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.”
“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”
“Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.”
“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God”
“Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
“I only want power so I can get books.”

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