Self Deceptions

Our self-deceptions are so dense, piled on so thick… that it is all but impossible to break through, to get a clear view of what we really are. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man’s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here, I will share parts of the discussion of two of the self-deceptions numbers one and seven, and list five more. ❋ Bella DePaulo (2011)

Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a monstrous scale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The story deals with failed romance and the self-deceptions by which pain is held at bay, as the lodger Mrs. Nome recasts the wretched tale of her daughter's betrayal and abortion as "The Most Beautiful love-affair the passions of our world have ever brought about." ❋ Helen Carr (2011)

Amour-propre is the fount of all our self-deceptions, the engine that motors our overestimating our charm, large-heartedness, candor and other ostensibly splendid virtues. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)

Perhaps no one is interested in hearing what they have to say when there are so many glittering, addle-headed young celebrities around to pay attention to instead, but it is enough to have that knowledge and to take wry satisfaction, rather than umbrage, at the self-deceptions of the young. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think they are best considered as self-deceptions -- lies that liars tell themselves. ❋ Bella DePaulo (2011)

No one can save us from our own self-deceptions … except us. — ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not saying it's cynical: I believe that partisans convince themselves of whatever it is they need to believe, and that those self-deceptions are sincerely held. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

In Willy Dalrymple's telling, the miserable self-deceptions of imperial over-reaching have come full circle from the rout of the Brits in Afghanistan in 1842. ❋ Unknown (2010)