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> [Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/half-truths-can-be-more-pernicious-than-outright-falsehoods/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

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## Other authors on Falsehoods

- [Samuel Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehoods/samuel-johnson/)

## More by Wendy Lesser

> [We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/we-turn-to-literature-to-remedy-the-loss-to-impose-some-kind-of/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/the-solution-to-the-novel-s-legal-problem-is-a-satisfyingly-intricate/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/reading-literature-is-a-way-of-reaching-back-to-something-bigger-and/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/prologue-why-i-read-it-s-not-a-question-i-can-completely-answer-there/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/reading-literature-is-a-way-of-reaching-back-to-something-bigger-and-2/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/the-slight-the-facile-and-the-merely-self-glorifying-tend-to-drop/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/i-suppose-if-i-had-to-give-a-one-word-answer-to-the-question-of-why-i/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/nothing-takes-you-out-of-yourself-the-way-a-good-book-does-but-at-the/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/half-truths-can-be-more-pernicious-than-outright-falsehoods/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

> [I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-lesser/i-think-i-was-born-with-a-sense-of-instantaneous-connection-between/)

[Wendy Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-lesser/)

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