Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
Source: Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
Falsehood, iv
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968) American photographer
Buffalo Rising interview (2007)
Context: Maybe by doing this work and putting my name on the front line, like a science project, will also afford me the opportunity to embarked into a very special opportunity to show that growing up poor doesn't have to mean being unworthy or forgettable. This is a very important lesson for those who propagate such narrow minded universally accepted inaccuracies about poverty.
“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book II, Ch. 17
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James Stephens (1882–1950) Irish writer
"The Goat Paths", line 89, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 6.
“Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
Mobutu to congressman Mervyn Dymally, 1988. Elliot and Dymally, p. 25
“Do you hate me so much?” “no, I can’t hate you. I wish I could, but I can’t””
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer
Devoted
“I hate this plan,” I said. “Let’s do it.”
Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer
Source: The Sword of Summer
