Libba BrayI've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
About This Quote
The human mind is not capable of processing information in a literal, mathematical way. We see things in patterns, metaphors, analogies and similes. The essence of the truth lies within the details. For example, there is an old saying that says "a secret is something you tell only one person." Well, if you want to keep secret anything, you need to make sure that it's something that will be told only one time.
You can't repeat it until it becomes history. Or another saying is "a lie has got to have four legs before you can stand on it."
Source: A Great And Terrible Beauty
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