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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception
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    Saul Bellow
    “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
    ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
    tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception
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    Derek Landy
    “The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

    "Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

    "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: good-and-evil, lies, perception, personality, self-deception, truth, truth-and-lies, villains
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    Criss Jami
    “I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: action, afraid, burning, confusion, destruction, fear, fire, forest, inner-peace, insensibility, laziness, peace, pretend, self-deception
    159 likes

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    Fulke Greville
    “No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.”
    ― Fulke Greville
    tags: self-deception
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
    tags: fear, liars, self-deception
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
    tags: self-deception, self-delusion
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    Sam Shepard
    “I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
    I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”
    ― Sam Shepard
    tags: disguises, faith, idenity, lies, lying, masks, personality, self-deception
    132 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: fitzgerald
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    Thornton Wilder
    “We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Thornton Wilder
    “People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
    tags: love, marriage, relationships
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    Thornton Wilder
    “Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
    tags: facts, moon, potatoes, weather
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    Thornton Wilder
    “I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.
    And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you.
    You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
    tags: crazy, love
    88 likes

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    Thornton Wilder
    “Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know � that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
    tags: ignorance, life, our-town, simon-stimson, time
    70 likes

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    Thornton Wilder
    “Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Thornton Wilder
    “Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?�
    “Have you guessed the riddle yet?� the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
    “No, I give it up,� Alice replied: “What’s the answer?�
    “I haven’t the slightest idea,� said the Hatter”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
    "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
    "Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor, less, more, nonsense, tea
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    Lewis Carroll
    “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: queen-of-hearts
    1035 likes



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