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Cytaty z tagiem "lie" [3]
[ + Dodaj cytat]He made it to the kitchen doorway before Jeremy’s quiet voice stopped him: "You genuinely care about them." Jean went still but didn’t look back. It took Jeremy a moment more to find his voice again, and then all he managed was a hesitant, "Despite every unkind thing they’ve said about you this spring, you still care about them, don’t you?" "I hate them," Jean said, and left. It was the cold hard truth; it was a blatant lie. How could he possibly make these free-spirited children understand?
But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared.
I knew you could lie, Jaron. I just didn't think you'd lie to yourself.