I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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