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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
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- Eugene O'Neill
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- Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Eugene O'Neill, based on documented lifetime 1888 to 1953. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93157 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93157 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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