Iris Murdoch Quotes About Lying
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.
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Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
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