“Men are not merely annihilating themselves at a great rate these days, but they are telling one another enormous lies, grandiose fibs...they are more destructive than dive bombers and mine fields, for they challenge not merely one's immediate position but one's main defenses.”
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“Mankind’s genius is ‘genius’ in name only despite what we might name it.”
“The lie deceives no one so much as the one who tells it.”
“An ‘established fact’ is most often ‘established’ by our fear of the facts.”
“Lies should be simple like the truth. Excessive detail was simply excessive.”
“I would rather live on my own than with an unfaithful partner.”
“When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true.”