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"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
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"Sanity is a cozy lie."
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"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."
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"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
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"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing."
Sex
"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
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"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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"Memories are doing funny things to us."
Fun
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
Politics
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
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"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
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