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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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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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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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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."
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"I keep reading between the lies."
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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"My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two."
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"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
People
"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
War
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
World
"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
Age
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Fiction
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
Truth
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
Money
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
Madness
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