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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
Catherine Crowe

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
Eleanor Clift

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
Boyle Roche

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Conrad Veidt

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Dexter Gordon

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Harvey Fierstein

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
Hjalmar Schacht

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
Stellan Skarsgard

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
Ira Glass

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