The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I’d long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as… - George Alec Effinger

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The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I’d long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out. The truth was in there somewhere, I knew it; the problem was coaxing it into the open.