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I really tried, or so i thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that i was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
-Mary McCarthy
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I Really Tried, Or So I Thought,

Mary McCarthy
I really tried, or so i thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that i was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
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