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William McIlvanney Quotes: Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
         

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.


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That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.



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Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.



There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.



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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.





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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.



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