I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth–safeguard it like wearing fake gems to keep the real ones from getting stolen or cheapened by overuse. I guarded what truths I possessed because information was not a thing–it was colorless odorless shapeless and therefore indestructible. There was no way to retrieve or void it no way to halt its proliferation. Telling someone a secret was like storing plutonium inside a sandwich bag the information would inevitably outlive the friendship or love or trust in which you’d placed it. And then you would have given it away. Jennifer Egan
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  2. Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. - George R.r. Martin
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  4. All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. - Woody Allen
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  1. It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
  2. Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
  3. When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine...
  4. That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.
  5. So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
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