Forum / What's the longest-running lie of your life?

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    Marcus Speh
    Aug 20, 02:06pm

    This question was put to me by my trusty online horoscope. I felt like a cat on a hot tin roof for a few days until I found my answer (http://bit.ly/relaxWriter) but I think it might be a great excuse for some writerly outpouring...

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    RW Spryszak
    Aug 20, 02:28pm

    That I am fearless.

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    Dolemite
    Aug 20, 06:29pm

    That I have the prettiest toes on the beach.

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    Matthew Robinson
    Aug 20, 06:32pm

    MATT!!! Your toes are perfect, stop it, stop it right now!

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    Dolemite
    Aug 20, 08:25pm

    Now, Matt, we've been through this a million times before, and I appreciate what you're saying, but it's just not truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue!

    WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

    ;-)

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    David Ackley
    Aug 20, 10:30pm

    That I never lie to myself.

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    Ann Bogle
    Aug 20, 10:40pm

    Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer, wrote in her Cronicas that at least she had not started to lie to herself. She was married to a diplomat. Her Cronicas appeared in Jornal do Brasil on Saturdays from '67 to '73. Cronica is a Brazilian form in journalism, and Lispector innovated it by writing a more intimate prose.

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    John Riley
    Aug 21, 01:29am

    Interesting you mentioned Lispector, Ann. I've been reading and re-reading "Family Ties" and I think it's obvious in stories like "Imitation of the Rose" and "The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman" that she didn't flinch from telling herself the truth, at least much of the time.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Aug 21, 01:50am

    That I know what I'm doing.

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    Lynn Beighley
    Aug 21, 01:50am

    Likely it's a lie I've not yet discovered as a lie. Could be anything, really.

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    Christian Bell
    Aug 21, 08:08pm

    That I'm not also 11 of the most popular writers on this site in addition to being four other major award-winning writers not here.

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    Susan Tepper
    Aug 21, 08:35pm

    I used to tell so many lies as a kid that my mom told me I should make a filing system to keep them straight. In my twenties, I gave up lying for lent. It changed my life. Maybe that's my longest running lie. Maybe it didn't change my life. Maybe I should start to lie again. Like Dr. House says: "Everyone lies."
    Maybe all this I just wrote is a lie. Maybe it's not.

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    Gloria Garfunkel
    Aug 21, 09:03pm

    That I never lie. Period.

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    Marcus Speh
    Aug 21, 09:03pm

    good piece, susan. writing fiction does help seeing through lies, one's own and others'.

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    Susan Tepper
    Aug 21, 09:36pm

    Marcus, it does?

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    James Claffey
    Aug 21, 09:41pm

    that i know what i am doing. (and i didn't see JLD's as the scroll hid it)

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    Susan Tepper
    Aug 21, 09:42pm

    JC, what are you doing?

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    Emily Bertholf
    Aug 21, 10:32pm

    That I am not good enough (and never will be;you know, defectively bad).

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    Gessy Alvarez
    Aug 21, 11:25pm

    I finished my book (story, poem, painting any room in my house, etc.).

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Aug 22, 02:41am

    James, it's an Irish thing.

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    S. M.
    Aug 28, 07:28am

    I suppose mine would be "I'm fine" and other variants of that whenever someone asks "how are you?"

    It's never that simple. But it's hard to tell how much the other side wants to know, what it is they are really asking about, how much they want to connect.

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    Estelle Bruno
    Aug 28, 06:23pm

    When I joined "The Sons of Italy". I lied, but it was the best lie I have ever told. Great bunch of people.

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    Barry Friesen
    Aug 28, 08:55pm

    It rubs the truth on its skin.

    IT RUBS THE TRUTH ON ITS SKIN!!!!!!!!!

    (Thank you, Matt Dennison.)

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    James Claffey
    Aug 28, 09:34pm

    yes, james. i still know what i'm doing. [not]

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    Steven Gowin
    Sep 03, 10:52pm

    That I hate lies.

    No I do not. I am beginning to find them a convenient way to expend energy in the most efficient way possible.

    I also appreciate a good lie more than ever. If we dream our lives anyway, isn't lie just another word for dream???

    Sorry, gotta go, I think “Inside Edition” is about to begin on Channel 4.

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    strannikov
    Sep 04, 12:03am

    I continued to miscount the number of days elapsed since I turned nineteen until some few years ago when I decided to begin counting backwards, but I'm STILL not nineteen again (yet).

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    M. F. Sullivan
    Sep 04, 06:00am

    That I know anything about anything.

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