Jonathan MessingerThe impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
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The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. This quote says that we don’t always tell the truth because we see the negative outcome, but we tell it because we’re afraid of being left off the page. We may hide our true feelings behind a mask of false modesty and say what we think others want to hear just to avoid being left out of something.
Source: Hiding Out
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