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Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.Anita Brookner
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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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You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.Anita Brookner