Clare Boothe Luce Quote

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism that — being what it is — it falls so short of in fact and in deed.


Vanity Fair (1930)


Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and...

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and...

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and...

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and...