“If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you guilty.”

—  Randall Jarrell, book Pictures from an Institution

Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 5, p. 220

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