“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.”
Source: The Iceman Cometh
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American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature 1888–1953Related quotes

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