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Not long, because no lie can live forever.
"How Long?' Not long, because no lie can live forever".
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On more than one occasion, Dr. King said, "We shall overcome, because Carlyle is right, 'No lie can live forever,'" as he did in March of 1968.
I am convinced of this because I believe Carlyle is right: "No lie can live forever".
Any vindication has been largely ignored because, as Mark Twain purportedly said: "A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on". Now, after losing ground in the court of public opinion, climate scientists are finally rallying — stepping up to answer questions, address misconceptions and actively counter misinformation and deception2.
Team-mates will offer reassurance that the cherished code of the dressing-room has not been breached, because lies can be rationalised.
It's not the fault of social media (you can't blame the platform), but it is a consequence of it, because lies can be passed on so swiftly and indiscriminately.
No amount of lies can efface this ineffaceable truth.
I always bear in mind Harold Brodkey's remark to me that if you write "she went down on him", it is a "lie", because no one can summarise an intense, prolonged and inevitably unrepeatable and original sex act with a snappy five-word formula like that.
And no amount of spin and lies can change it.
Because we can't all be lying, can we?
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