No," I said. "And I won't. But you can't blame the liars because all a writer of fiction is really is a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. I am a writer of fiction and so I am a liar too and invent from what I know and that I've heard. I'm a liar."
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"My excuse is that I make the truth as I invent it truer than it would be."
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"My excuse is that I make the truth as I invent it truer than it would be."
