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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous."

Lying Fall Crazy
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Lying

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--"

Children Lying Congratulations
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Emory Upton Military Officer, Author
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"I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together."

War Lying Battle
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Epictetus Philosopher
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"If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?"

Men Lying Stupid
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love."

Lying Falling In Love Being In Love
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period."

Lying Passion Confusion
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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it."

Lying Sleep Insomnia
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss."

Writing Lying Enemy
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Dana Gould Comedian
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"Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper."

Lying Age Dog
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly."

Lying Problem Design
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Beatrix Campbell Author, Journalist
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"A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers."

Children Lying Childhood
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."

Lying Lust Deceit
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