Stephanie Ericsson The Ways We Lie Analysis

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Taylor Allen

"Lies are like scars. They destroy your soul" - American Horror Story

From day to day people tend to tell small white lies throughout their lives but some people take it a bit too fa, by living a lie. In Stephanie Ericsson's essay "The Ways We Lie," Ericsson describes how lying effects our lives and how lying can cause more trouble than they’re worth. In the following quote Ericsson talks about how we cannot fully remove lies from our lives "it's not easy to entirely eliminate lies from our lives." Which in fact is quite true we do not always have to lie but sometimes it is better for the well-being of others. Personal experience with people lying to me, I do not appreciate it at all. to me lying is just a waste because eventually