"Between the wish and the thing the world…" — Cormac McCarthy

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
• I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
• I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. — David Bailey
• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,… — Mikhail Bakunin

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