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"If I hadn't made stories up my whole life I'd be dead I think. I think that's an admirable quality, if by "lying" we mean creating fictions beautifully against the grain of culture's physical and psychic atomizing tendencies…I don't like lies that come from places of power and oppression. I don't like politicians or cultural "authorities" who lie. I don't like the lies born of "gender" or "religion" or "family" or "criminality" or the cult of good citizenship that cause an individual to believe there is something wrong with them. I don't like the lie called power, or the lie that some people are inferior to others, or the lie that humans are superior to the environment or animals. The best liars I've ever met or known are my favorite writers, musicians, artists and filmmakers. They are of the first variety. I hope they lie their asses off."