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We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

Katha Pollitt
Lying, Thinking, Deception
Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.