I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Kenneth Logan
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine....
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine....
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine....
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine....
About This Quote

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while. This quote is by one of my favorite authors, James Baldwin.

The way he says, "They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while" is so poetic. He is saying that he tried to make the lie work for him but he was not able to. He feels that he was not able to give 100% of himself because the lie was not his.

He felt that he could not put his heart into things that were not his own. That is why this quote is meaningful because it shows that you should only be present in things that are your own.

Source: True Letters From A Fictional Life

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