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I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
David Rakoff
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David Rakoff
Canadian
Writer
Born:
Nov 27
,
1964
Died:
Aug 9
,
2012
Topics
Lie
,
Writing
,
Say
,
About
,
Oneself
,
Both
,
Disclosure
,
Going
,
Little
,
Them
,
Acting
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Charles Spurgeon
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World
Half
Shoes
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While
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
Good
Appreciation
Lie
Soil
Goodness
Roots
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
Lie
Single
Reputation
Destroys
Whole
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Lie
Half
Often
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
You
Lie
Will
Big
Enough
Tell
Frequently
Big Enough
Believed
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
War
Lie
People
Election
Before
Hunt
Never
After
Much
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
Great
Lie
People
Will
Big
Fall
Easily
Great Masses
More
Small
Masses
Than
Victims
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Lie
Enemy
Myth
Great Enemy
Deliberate
Unrealistic
Very
Persistent
Contrived
Often
Dishonest
Persuasive
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
Character
Lie
People
Wealth
Power
Goodness
Faults
All People
Born
Does
Greatness
Human
Just
Shortcomings
Us
Basic
Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.
Scottie Pippen
Smile
Me
Lie
Face
Nothing
Disrespect
About
Wrong
Come
Like
Then
Act
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