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I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating...more

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Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be s...more

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Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tr...more

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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open....more

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Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

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An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

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It ain't kin we? It's will we?

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The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike any other...more

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But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This lan...more

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And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the grea...more

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Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're th...more

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I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

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Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

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Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no...more