Do not tell me that lies can stand forever.
And what lies can they get away with telling?
Long ago, someone had taught Grossbart the sad rule that only lies can get the truth.
Whatever my generation's failings might be, we are not so unteachable that only lies can catch our attention.
Team-mates will offer reassurance that the cherished code of the dressing-room has not been breached, because lies can be rationalised.
Fake news is a real cause for concern on social media, particularly on Facebook, where unverified information and outright lies can swallow up facts and truth.
As contributor Geraldine Brooks writes: "There is an ugly brilliance to this silencing … If the truth is silenced, lies can fill the space.
We are at the end of an era in which lies can be used to steal from the public and the commons.
In contrast, psychologists have been primarily concerned with the development of the capacity for lying during childhood, our motives for lying, the incidence of lying in everyday life, and the means by which lies can be detected.
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.
But Spacey has found a challenge in O'Neill, whose main object as a writer was to show that lies can not only cripple the psyche but also completely undo the transformative effect of love.
