You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time

by Patricia Marx

Offers tongue-in-cheek answers to everyday moral and ethical questions concerning children, work, money, love, friendship, parties, literature, the arts, travel, health, and good manners

89 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer.
Born in Abingdon, Pennsylvania, she earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in the The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and one of the first two women elected to the Harvard Lampoon.[1][2] She is the author of the 2007 novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, as well as several humor books and children's books (Meet My Staff, Now Everybody Really Hates Me, Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table).[3]

Reviews

[Susan Liston · Rating 5 out of 5]

A classic. I've had this book for many years and quote it often. So nice to find an author whose thought processes so closely mirror one's own.....