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I Became A Virtuoso Of Deceit. It Wasn't Pleasure I Was After, It Was Knowledge. I Consulted The Strictest Moralists To Learn How To Appear, Philosophers To Find Out What To Think And Novelists To See What I Could Get Away With.

You See, I Always Divide People Into Two Groups. Those Who Live By What They Know To Be A Lie, And Those Who Live By What They Believe, Falsely, To Be The Truth.

You Know Very Well That Unless You're A Scientist, It's Much More Important For A Theory To Be Shapely, Than For It To Be True.

I Think There's Something Degrading About Having A Husband For A Rival. It's Humiliating If You Fail And Commonplace If You Succeed.

If I Had To Give A Definition Of Capitalism I Would Say: The Process Whereby American Girls Turn Into American Women.