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"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country."
"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."
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
"Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love."
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