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Every day - in every area of our lives - we make and take a thousand lies. Not vicious lies. Not harmful lies. Not lies that count. No, of course not. But great lies. It'll be ready in an hour. Your cheque is in the post. Fresh today. I'll just have one. I was about to call you. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Of course I've never loved anyone else. We pretend, with no effort and less guilt, that we don't lie through our teeth every minute of the day — and everyone else pretends that they don't either. But lying saves time and angst. It makes everybody happier than they would be if they always told or had to listen to the truth. After all, you don't really want to hear that you'll be lucky if you ever see your stereo again. Finding out that you're not going to get paid, at least for a few months, plays havoc with your stress levels. Why should you want to know that the last head of cabbage in the shop — needed urgently for the borscht you're making for the Prime Minister's dinner party — has been sitting under the cash register with the cat for the last two weeks? You're hardly going to make a public announcement that you're about to eat an entire family-size bag of crisps. Not likely. Nor is it likely that you're going to explain to the man about to buy your car that the door always falls off like that. You're certainly not about to tell your fiancé that you loved the man you dated all through university a lot more than you'll ever love him. Think of it like this: life is an incredibly complicated, intricate, fragile, sensitive and dodgy machine - not great, perhaps, but the only one we've got — and lies are the lubricant that keeps the whole thing from blowing in our faces.
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