…the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone…
– Ann Patchett
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- I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. – David Mitchell
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- Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett
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- Some people say it’s easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. – Virginia Vayna
- What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? – Saurabh Sharma
- True love will triumph in the end-”which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have. – John Green
- Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill
- I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us. – Laura Andersen
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- Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. – Isaac Asimov
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