“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.”
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Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Source: Sen. Chris Coons and Caitlin Flanagan, Natural Immunity, (2021)
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Crack-Up
Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945) <br class="br">Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Not found in Jefferson's writings, according to the Jefferson Monticello center https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/if-you-want-something-you-have-never-had-quotation. First known appearance in print is from 2004. <br class="br">Misattributed