SELF  DECEPTION

Quote for Today - May 14, 2011

"Most of our platitudes notwithstanding,
self-deception remains the most difficult deception.
The tricks that work on others count for nothing
in that very well lit alley
where one keeps assignations with oneself:
no winning smiles will do here,
no prettily drawn lists of good intentions."


Joan Didion [1934- ], "On Self Respect," in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968