Quotes
There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who coordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
An immense amount, enough to fill many books, has already been written on the subject [of the Barcelona fighting], and I do not suppose I should exaggerate if I said that nine-tenths of it is untruthful.
The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies — unless one counts journalists.
Living a lie the whole time — the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them ... it corrupts us, it corrupts us in ways you can't imagine.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?
Both women, looking different ways, kept shrugging their shoulders, and asking themselves how the deuce the other could tell such woppers!
