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The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Eric Ambler

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Tags: duplicity, self awareness, self deception

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About Eric Ambler

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.