Original artwork, not a still
It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.
— Brief Encounter • 1945
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Being fully trusted can make deceiving someone weirdly effortless, because they never suspect anything. The speaker sees that ease as part of the problem: the very lack of resistance makes lying feel cheap and shameful rather than clever.
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