“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
Source: Counter-Clock World
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Source: Death Bringer
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Irish children's writer 1974Related quotes
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