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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
Art
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
Problems
"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
Fear
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
Health
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
Success
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
Literature
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
Man
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"True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us."
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Personal Development
"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
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"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."
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"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
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"If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie."
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"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
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"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
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"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."
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"Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."
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