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"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."
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"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."
"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
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