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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
Explore more quotes by David Antin
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
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