"Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster."
"Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof."
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Source: Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin
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