I don't think it's possible to tell the complete truth in a tangible medium. All writing is at least a little bit a lie. All speech is at least partially untrue and unrepresentative. Because I use an internal monologue to think, am I incapable of telling myself the whole truth?
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Well, when I say all writing is lies, I'm sloganeering the idea that no finite number of words can encapsulate everything we feel about anything. Every sentence sacrifices nuance for the sake of finishing the expression. The more we sacrifice, the more poetic it becomes, ideally.
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So, yes, we select lies we're willing to tell in order to finish. It's why different readers get different things out of the text—they complete it when they consume it and bounce it off their own brain. Maybe, when we think in words, we depend on deciphering the same half-truths.
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