"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego,……" — Clare Boothe Luce

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed."

— Clare Boothe Luce

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