“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”

“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”

“Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine, and the facts.”

“An educated person will listen to a story before he reacts... But a well-educated person knows how to listen to both sides of a story before he reacts.”

“Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.”

“Komatsu's view is that there are always two sides to everything," Tengo said. "A good side and a not-so-bad side.”