"We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear."

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Source : Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

Douglas Kennedy

#Lying Quotes #Hate Quotes #Dodge Quotes

“You can't triple stamp a double stamp!”
“When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.”

Source : TV Series "The Jack Benny Program", 1950.
“Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path”
“We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.”
“We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.”
“My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.”

Source : "Computers, Ethics & Social Values". Book edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Fay Nissenbaum, 1995.
“I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.”
“I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.”

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