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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
Explore more quotes by David Antin
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
"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."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
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