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Dorothy Parker
“What fresh hell is this?”
Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

Miriam Toews
“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

Raymond Carver
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
Raymond Carver

Margaret Atwood
“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.”
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Alfred Hayes
“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.”
Alfred Hayes, In Love

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