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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.

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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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