“Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 1, “Festival Night” (p. 7)
“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”
— Charles Bukowski, book Ham on Rye
Source: Ham on Rye
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