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“Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”
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“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
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“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
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“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them”
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“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
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“The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
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“Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims."”
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“What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up”
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“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine”
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“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds”
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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
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