lie

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b4cc8a2	Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.	con lie sexy devil wit	Holly Black
b4c9ac9	The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.	punishment liar lie	George Bernard Shaw
a1f36cc	"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."	lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires	Anne Rice
ba7fdae	There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.	bittersweet self-deception lie	Irvine Welsh
3bde908	Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.	lie	Philip Pullman
9c79981	With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.	lie	David Levithan
909601f	Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.	humor dickens witness lie	Charles Dickens
20303ea	The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.	lying humanity honesty humiliation lie	J.K. Rowling
b18f9ce	Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.	truth sexing-the-cherry language lie	Jeanette Winterson
2f552ef	I survive at the edge of friends circles.	dark friends motives deceit lie sad	Holly Black
f5ff219	Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told -- told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.	truth hurt lie forgetfulness	Neil Gaiman
3935896	Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.	truth lie	George R.R. Martin
579c8b2	I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.	story writer john-steinbeck lie	John Steinbeck
403dc95	It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.	lies honesty truth lie	Chuck Palahniuk
9987ca5	A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.	life truth taste lie	Jodi Picoult
7a70fbc	That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.	lie	Jodi Picoult
2bb7d18	Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.	lying lies honesty truth lie stories	Marisha Pessl
73a7e61	But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.	marriage had-known saction transgression without-marriage first-time everyone needs making-love wants moment lie everything sin	Jodi Picoult
cda9bdb	Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.	truth lie	Harry G. Frankfurt
f0cb4b4	I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)	lies writer writing reality fantasy compulsive-lying crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality wannabewriter superiority-complex self-righteous egotistical vainity vain pretending wannabe ego smile smiling liar lie	Gillian Flynn
041fba1	Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs	men lie	Carl Hiaasen
fdd915e	Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany	solitude life experience lie	Sherrilyn Kenyon
7205990	"Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders."	hope truth disillusionment society innocence lie	Erich Fromm
d4f5f04	"Where are you going?" He looked over his shoulder at me. "If I stay, you won't get any sleep." "Stay," I said. "I promise to keep my hands to myself." Lie--such an outright lie. He gave me a half smile that told me he knew it, too, but nestled down, tugging me into his arms. I wrapped an arm around his waist and rested my head in the hollow of his shoulder. He idly stroked my hair. I didn't want to sleep--didn't want to lose a minute with him--but an immense exhaustion was pulling me away from consciousness, until all I knew was the touch of his fingers in my hair and the sounds of his breathing."	tamlin intimate stay touching hold goodbye lie	Sarah J. Maas
bf82ab1	It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.	illusion lie	Michael J. Sullivan
b7c6238	The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.	hate dark emotion love sith peace star-wars lust strong lie	Drew Karpyshyn
d17af1e	The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.	lies pure lie	George Eliot
2be9dfd	If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.	politics lie	Marjorie Garber
c711e6e	And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.	lie eating-disorders	Laurie Halse Anderson
698dddd	I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some...) I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectical propaganda and Comitern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar... ...like those LSD heads in newspaper photographs who sit in parks gazing rapturously at the sky to show how high they are when they're only victims momentarily of a contraction of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain that causes the illusion...	lying illusion truth marxian-dialectical-propaganda lsd lie sin	Jack Kerouac
67137bc	The next morning the sea was calm again, the sun was shining, and the water was so blue and innocent a man might never know that under it my brother floated, dead with all his men.	drowning morning innocence duplicity sea lie ocean	George R.R. Martin
df5a512	When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.	truth dissemble moron reveal hide lie fool	Robin Hobb
efc4ad7	Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.	lie	Stephanie Perkins
9d645e6	Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.	sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare	Rebecca McNutt
fc27ae4	With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they're happy.	reality hope life truth lie	Fernando Pessoa
c1eaa56	"{ }	integrity coop credulity divines dreadful catholic-church luminous martyrs christendom catholic sages believers catholicism submission cruelty realization church shame lie contempt ritual ugly hell	H.G. Wells
1805996	She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.	human beauty authoritarian kitsch human-condition reveal weakness lie power	Milan Kundera
b5151eb	The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.	motivation life lie frustration	Geoff Dyer
5d3552e	Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.	honesty song truth speak exist gap lack omission starling lie guilty	Robin Hobb
4299a25	"Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."	mourning time grief loss love bereavement saying death-dying death-of-a-friend deal death-of-a-loved-one worse ask lie easy	Rebecca McNutt
0e251f7	that palpable sense of Friday joy, everyone colluding with the lie that somehow the weekend would be amazing and that, next week, work would be different, better. They never learn.	joy never lie learn	Gail Honeyman
dea569f	...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...	lies truth run lie	Ann Patchett
155490c	When I finished, Dr. Fellows said, She lowered her voice. I said. Her brows shot up to meet her hairline. Tori smirked and leaned back onto her pillow. Tori said. Dr. Fellows shot her a look, which Tori met with a cool gaze. Tori said,	influence dr-fellows corey chloe tori derek persuade maya lie	Kelley Armstrong
f57361a	Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can ... Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!	underground lie	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e4098e0	Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all... those are lies too, lies wrapped in hope.	war lie	Robert Ferrigno
f04ffc6	"The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?"	god lie	Robert Ferrigno
de5a0a9	More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they don't. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they haven't learned enough to figure out that this new person probably won't save them either.	marriage love lie	Laura Dave
8ed9882	I think beauty can be a great lie. Sometimes the greatest lie.	deception lie	M.J. Rose
04cfbc3	But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise.	history gospel lie posterity	Nick Tosches
3a0d63a	I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.	make-up lie guilt	Mitch Albom
a004101	... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about page three.' They were comfortable in each other's company, and this confession seemed to accentuate the ease of their relationship. The confession itself was not entirely true; Isabel had read more Proust than that, but other people undoubtedly found it reassuring to think that one had only read a few pages. Certainly those who claimed to have read Proust in his entirety got scant sympathy from others. And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read? Some politicians, she reminded herself, did that--or the equivalent--when they claimed to be down-to-earth, no-nonsense types, just like the voters, when all the time they were secretly delighting in Proust . . .	politicians proust lie	Alexander McCall Smith
791495c	Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards.	standard lie	Peter Singer
af323b1	But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?	truth lie	Julie Orringer

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Holly Black

b4c9ac9

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

punishment liar lie

George Bernard Shaw

a1f36cc

"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires

Anne Rice

ba7fdae

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

bittersweet self-deception lie

Irvine Welsh

3bde908

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

lie

Philip Pullman

9c79981

With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.

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David Levithan

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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

humor dickens witness lie

Charles Dickens

20303ea

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.

lying humanity honesty humiliation lie

J.K. Rowling

b18f9ce

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

truth sexing-the-cherry language lie

Jeanette Winterson

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I survive at the edge of friends circles.

dark friends motives deceit lie sad

Holly Black

f5ff219

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told -- told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

truth hurt lie forgetfulness

Neil Gaiman

3935896

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

truth lie

George R.R. Martin

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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

story writer john-steinbeck lie

John Steinbeck

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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

lies honesty truth lie

Chuck Palahniuk

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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

life truth taste lie

Jodi Picoult

7a70fbc

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

lie

Jodi Picoult

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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

lying lies honesty truth lie stories

Marisha Pessl

73a7e61

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

marriage had-known saction transgression without-marriage first-time everyone needs making-love wants moment lie everything sin

Jodi Picoult

cda9bdb

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

truth lie

Harry G. Frankfurt

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I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

lies writer writing reality fantasy compulsive-lying crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality wannabewriter superiority-complex self-righteous egotistical vainity vain pretending wannabe ego smile smiling liar lie

Gillian Flynn

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Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs

men lie

Carl Hiaasen

fdd915e

Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany

solitude life experience lie

Sherrilyn Kenyon

7205990

"Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders."

hope truth disillusionment society innocence lie

Erich Fromm

d4f5f04

"Where are you going?" He looked over his shoulder at me. "If I stay, you won't get any sleep." "Stay," I said. "I promise to keep my hands to myself." Lie--such an outright lie. He gave me a half smile that told me he knew it, too, but nestled down, tugging me into his arms. I wrapped an arm around his waist and rested my head in the hollow of his shoulder. He idly stroked my hair. I didn't want to sleep--didn't want to lose a minute with him--but an immense exhaustion was pulling me away from consciousness, until all I knew was the touch of his fingers in my hair and the sounds of his breathing."

tamlin intimate stay touching hold goodbye lie

Sarah J. Maas

bf82ab1

It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.

illusion lie

Michael J. Sullivan

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The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.

hate dark emotion love sith peace star-wars lust strong lie

Drew Karpyshyn

d17af1e

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

lies pure lie

George Eliot

2be9dfd

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

politics lie

Marjorie Garber

c711e6e

And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

lie eating-disorders

Laurie Halse Anderson

698dddd

I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some...) I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectical propaganda and Comitern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar... ...like those LSD heads in newspaper photographs who sit in parks gazing rapturously at the sky to show how high they are when they're only victims momentarily of a contraction of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain that causes the illusion...

lying illusion truth marxian-dialectical-propaganda lsd lie sin

Jack Kerouac

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The next morning the sea was calm again, the sun was shining, and the water was so blue and innocent a man might never know that under it my brother floated, dead with all his men.

drowning morning innocence duplicity sea lie ocean

George R.R. Martin

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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

truth dissemble moron reveal hide lie fool

Robin Hobb

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Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.

lie

Stephanie Perkins

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Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.

sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare

Rebecca McNutt

fc27ae4

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they're happy.

reality hope life truth lie

Fernando Pessoa

c1eaa56

"{ }

integrity coop credulity divines dreadful catholic-church luminous martyrs christendom catholic sages believers catholicism submission cruelty realization church shame lie contempt ritual ugly hell

H.G. Wells

1805996

She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

human beauty authoritarian kitsch human-condition reveal weakness lie power

Milan Kundera

b5151eb

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

motivation life lie frustration

Geoff Dyer

5d3552e

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

honesty song truth speak exist gap lack omission starling lie guilty

Robin Hobb

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"Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."

mourning time grief loss love bereavement saying death-dying death-of-a-friend deal death-of-a-loved-one worse ask lie easy

Rebecca McNutt

0e251f7

that palpable sense of Friday joy, everyone colluding with the lie that somehow the weekend would be amazing and that, next week, work would be different, better. They never learn.

joy never lie learn

Gail Honeyman

dea569f

...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...

lies truth run lie

Ann Patchett

155490c

When I finished, Dr. Fellows said, She lowered her voice. I said. Her brows shot up to meet her hairline. Tori smirked and leaned back onto her pillow. Tori said. Dr. Fellows shot her a look, which Tori met with a cool gaze. Tori said,

influence dr-fellows corey chloe tori derek persuade maya lie

Kelley Armstrong

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Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can ... Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!

underground lie

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

e4098e0

Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all... those are lies too, lies wrapped in hope.

war lie

Robert Ferrigno

f04ffc6

"The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?"

god lie

Robert Ferrigno

de5a0a9

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they don't. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they haven't learned enough to figure out that this new person probably won't save them either.

marriage love lie

Laura Dave

8ed9882

I think beauty can be a great lie. Sometimes the greatest lie.

deception lie

M.J. Rose

04cfbc3

But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise.

history gospel lie posterity

Nick Tosches

3a0d63a

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

make-up lie guilt

Mitch Albom

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... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about page three.' They were comfortable in each other's company, and this confession seemed to accentuate the ease of their relationship. The confession itself was not entirely true; Isabel had read more Proust than that, but other people undoubtedly found it reassuring to think that one had only read a few pages. Certainly those who claimed to have read Proust in his entirety got scant sympathy from others. And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read? Some politicians, she reminded herself, did that--or the equivalent--when they claimed to be down-to-earth, no-nonsense types, just like the voters, when all the time they were secretly delighting in Proust . . .

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Alexander McCall Smith

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Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards.

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Peter Singer

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But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

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Julie Orringer