"I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false."

Denial, Self-Deception, Truth, Irony

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"I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false."

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"The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives."

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Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

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"I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with."

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"She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one."

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Diversity

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Alienation

"He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody."

Salvation

"Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works."

Absurdity

"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

Reading

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

Belief

"And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia."

Nostalgia

"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."

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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

Shame