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"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
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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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"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Marriage
"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."
Change
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
Marriage
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
"Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me."
Life
"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."
People
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
Imagination
"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
Exploration
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