"A man who lies is merely hiding the truth; but a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it."
Robert Bolt [in screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia, spoken by 'Mr Dryden', the slippery British diplomat played by Claude Rains]
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I read this the other day but only now remembered what it reminded me of. No idea of the source, but it went something like, If you always tell the truth, you don't need a good memory.
...Ah. Looks like it might have been Mark Twain: "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Although it's awfully damned close, too, to Montaigne's "It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying" -- maybe Twain stole it from him!
Bolt's version is the right one for a screenplay, methinks.
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