
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Address, American Writers Congress, New York City (1937). Reprinted in New Masses (June 22, 1937)
Context: There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is Fascism. For Fascism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under Fascism.
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142
Disputed
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Source: On Beauty (2005)
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