Rebecca Scherm Quotes

#1. The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

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#2. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

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#3. Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men.

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#4. Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

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#5. But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.

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#6. But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

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#7. She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

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#8. Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.

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#9. Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

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#10. The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.

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