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1. This author's mischievous character once took the rap for his beloved Becky Thatcher, saving her from punishment at school. Perhaps his bottom would have been better off if he'd heeded the words of his creator, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything," a quote credited to which American writer?
2. Like his character Dorian Gray, this next author was known to dance in the shadow between truth and illusion in his personal life and livelihood. He once wrote, "the truth is rarely pure and never simple," truer words ne'er spoken by which Irish writer?
3. The truth was long hidden from this author's character, chased by mysterious letter deliveries until his magical fate was made known. "The truth...It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution," is a great truth penned by which author?
4. This British politician was well known for his clarity of thought and leadership through World War Two. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened," was the humorous approach to truth spoken by whom, scotch and water in hand?
5. Born of a Jewish family, yet raised Anglican, which Conservative British Prime Minister and friend of Queen Victoria once said "Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time"?
6. Many great truths are realized after death, a theory highlighted by this author's character, Addie Bundren. As she viewed life from her coffin, she might have said, "Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth," but rather these words were attributed to which writer, her creator?
7. Famed for her Southern Gothic storytelling and grotesque characters like The Misfit and Hulga, it's no surprise the quote, "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it," was penned by which author?
8. Responsible for big theories that form the basis of modern physics, simpler thoughts were also presented including, "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth," magnetically spoken by which scientist?
9. A defender of human rights and encourager of civil disobedience in both South Africa and India, which honored leader once said, "Truth never damages a cause that is just"?
10. A truth that perhaps the Pevensie children would have spoken, "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it," was instead penned by which author out of his wardrobe?
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