Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when theres something they must have. - El

Nobody speaks the truth when theres something they must have. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Deception/Lying
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What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

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Liars are always ready to take oaths. – Vittorio Alfieri

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. – Francis Bacon

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Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods. – English Proverb

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We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on. – J.K. Rowling

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