Convenient Lies is a novel by American author Michael Keenan. Convenient Lies is the second installment in the "Junk Food for Your Mind" series.
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poetic truth — lies A translation of an expression used by Goebbels, who was appointed Minister of Advertising by Hitler in 1933: Convenient lies ( poetic truths ) as he called them. (Trevor Roper, 1977) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
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