"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie."

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"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side."

B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian

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"A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids."

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"People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time."

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"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."

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"My life is triage."

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"I don't take advances for my books."

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"The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape."

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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."

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"I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family."

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"I think people should be consumers of journalism."

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"I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure."

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