I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Mary McCarthy
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A lie is a lie, but it’s the truth that matters to them, not what you think. It’s not that they can’t understand your truth, it’s that they are looking at the truth from a different angle. Or, maybe they are telling you what they think you want to hear so that you will give them the benefit of the doubt and give up on your dreams.

Source: Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood

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