“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
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“Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.”
New York Times, 20 September 1970.
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