Life Quote by John Clellon Holmes

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

— John Yau

“Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...”

— Terry McMillan

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.”

— Graham Greene

“It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.”

— Israel Shamir

“The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.”

— Garak

“The truth stands alone. If anything is added, it is no longer the truth.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Maybe there’s no such thing as real truth, just lots and lots of different ways of explaining the same thing.”

— Keren David

“I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A half-truth is 90% of the story. The other 10% is tithed to God.”

— Jarod Kintz

“. . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes.”

— Simon Van Booy

“The story may have been exaggerated, yet it must have been something like the truth.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky