“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e
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