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"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
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"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
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Personal Development
"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"
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Personal Development
"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."
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Personal Development
"Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around."
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Personal Development
"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
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Personal Development
"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."
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"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
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"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."
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"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."
Authority
"I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger, the cat was not."
Mystery
"Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you."
Affection
"Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys, it's more sanitary."
Affection
"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."
Deception
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."
Progress
"Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along."
Belief
"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
Politics
"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
Mortality
"I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting."
Healing
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