“They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.”
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
Philip K. Dick
Do the World a favor and jump.