lying

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e1cc00b	I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.	lying truth self-deception	S.E. Hinton
11bf451	"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.	lying passion love cynicism	Dorothy Parker
e6e5568	I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.	lying life	J.D. Salinger
48d77b3	Anything is better than lies and deceit!	lying lies honesty	Leo Tolstoy
fe24670	But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.	lying truth willful-ignorance	Ray Bradbury
0db9fd8	The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort	lying truth	Katherine Dunn
d8736d4	...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons	lying lies truth inspirational	Jeanne Birdsall
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
af00a0b	My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.	lying humour salvation	Diana Wynne Jones
2c126dc	At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.	lying love heartbreaker sue-bridehead heartbroken selfish deception flirting cruel	Thomas Hardy
76de407	The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.	being-someone-else lying humanity inspirational being-someone-else-you-are-not hating-yourself trying-to-be-like-someone-else self-acceptance hiding shame self-hatred	J.K. Rowling
24d8c1e	He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.	lying tricksters	Megan Whalen Turner
d8100aa	If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.	lying self-deception	W. Somerset Maugham
02d061f	She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.	lying	Holly Black
5561a6e	Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.	lying truth	David Mitchell
88cf4fb	Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.	lying lies liars	John Steinbeck
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
414c9da	"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused."	lying exposed-truth jon confusion	Tamora Pierce
107236d	Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.	lying truth	Rick Riordan
4abbbbc	It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.	lying	Kim Edwards
630bc82	Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.	lying	Sam Harris
3136c84	It's not lying when you do it to officers!	lying superiors	Terry Pratchett
cb3ece5	Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.	lying lies shit resistance	Steven Pressfield
2841628	The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It's for their own good.	lying truth protect parents	Sophie Kinsella
87a1804	Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.	lying lies humor truth sarcasm	Chuck Klosterman
5f47215	There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.	lying truth	Stephen King
eead848	In thy foul throat thou liest.	lying	William Shakespeare
815cab8	"Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question."	lying	Megan Whalen Turner
6358d49	Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying	lying secrets	Holly Black
54e3449	I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think? Well, tell me!' His brother was silent and Edward went on: 'If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you really thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told a man the truth to his face, it would mean I was taking him seriously. And to take something so unimportant seriously means to become less than serious oneself. I, you see, lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become one of them myself.	virtue lying lies truth	Milan Kundera
ad8dfe4	"Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience--only much more convincingly." --	lying convincing court conscience	Jim Butcher
f8a5db4	It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth -- but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it...but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.	lying lies truth omissions half-truths	Robert A. Heinlein
acc76eb	Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.	lying lies half-truths public-image	Caroline Kettlewell
2bb7d18	Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.	lying lies honesty truth lie stories	Marisha Pessl
ae8c21e	We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.	lying	Chuck Klosterman
cd75d0c	There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.	lying lies	Holly Black
03735c9	"You could still be lying," says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. "Try her." "Your pardon?" Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he's speaking in such an offhanded way. "Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty," the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. "I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth." Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I know this is necessary. I know that he doesn't intend to hurt me. I know he can't glamour me. And yet I draw back automatically. "Jude?" he asks. "Go ahead," I say. I hear the glamour enter his voice, heady and seductive and more powerful than I expected. "Crawl to me," he says with a grin. Embarrassment pinks my cheeks. I stay where I am, looking at all their faces. "Satisfied?" The Bomb nods. "You're not charmed."	lying glamour	Holly Black
e2ecf12	"Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." , she excused her lie mentally. "	lying ralon bully strange	Tamora Pierce
b854f0b	"I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." "I cant," he said. "There aint anything to do? Not anything?" "I didn't say that," Grandfather said. "I said I couldn't. You can." "What?" I said. "How can I forget it? Tell me how to." "You cant," he said. "Nothing is ever forgotten. Nothing is ever lost. It's too valuable." "Then what can I do?" "Live with it," Grandfather said. "Live with it? You mean, forever? For the rest of my life? Not ever to get rid of it? Never? I cant. Dont you see that I cant?" "Yes you can," he said. "You will. A gentleman always does. A gentleman can live through anything. He faces anything. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them but only acquiesced to them, didn't say No though he knew he should."	lying forgiving-the-past	William Faulkner
aefb41a	Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.	lying	Rachel Cohn
688e1d1	She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position. Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.	disclosure lying truth information questions-and-answers facts questions	Alexander McCall Smith
36b54c2	Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.	lying lies truth freedom-of-the-press the-news news	Norman Mailer
a7e20e7	Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.	lying lies writing writers	Aljean Harmetz
94afddb	Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.	lying truth	Brené Brown
a4afaf9	I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.	lying truth thomas-raith	Jim Butcher
1dfb2e3	Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.	lying truthfulness	Sam Harris
444fb2c	The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.	lying lies life rule cynical rules	Jennifer Crusie
1d18db9	Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.	lying rationalization hypocrisy	Saul Bellow
bea78d3	Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.	lying philosophy truth thought-provoking	Ursula K. Le Guin
10bc4a6	The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.	lying queer-youth	Bob Smith
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
e9fd48c	...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.	lying the-lacuna media	Barbara Kingsolver
da75eb2	The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.	lying love-for-country nationalism dignity rights patriotism	Barbara Kingsolver
b661bf7	"She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible."	lying teenager	Chelsea Cain
962cbc4	Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it. Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don't be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.	lying lies fear love self-love disgust selfishness	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41054e9	I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.	lying truth	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b5870fe	Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others - How did you get that bruise? - would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing. Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't.	lying lies integrity honesty transparency growth mental-health	Sam Harris
fc17b77	I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)	lying war politics	Tim O'Brien
6b6435f	Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.	lying lies humanity cynical lips	Jennifer Crusie
35be911	Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.	lying ninth-key susannah-simon suze-simon the-mediator	Meg Cabot
cd6800f	They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.	lying religion love truth futility-of-war	Thomas Pynchon
2669b2b	I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.	lying lies	Roger Zelazny
a1200ce	The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.	lying true truth	Sean Patrick Brennan
e027976	Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.	lying lies sally-wilcox the-wishing-stone spooksville	Christopher Pike

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

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"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.

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Dorothy Parker

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

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J.D. Salinger

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Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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Leo Tolstoy

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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

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Ray Bradbury

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The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

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Katherine Dunn

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...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons

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Jeanne Birdsall

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

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Anne Rice

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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

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Diana Wynne Jones

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

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Thomas Hardy

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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

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J.K. Rowling

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He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

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Megan Whalen Turner

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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

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W. Somerset Maugham

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She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.

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Holly Black

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Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

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David Mitchell

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Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.

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John Steinbeck

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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.

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J.K. Rowling

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"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused."

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Tamora Pierce

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Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

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Rick Riordan

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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

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Kim Edwards

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Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

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Sam Harris

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It's not lying when you do it to officers!

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Terry Pratchett

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Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

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Steven Pressfield

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The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It's for their own good.

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Sophie Kinsella

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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

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Chuck Klosterman

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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

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Stephen King

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In thy foul throat thou liest.

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William Shakespeare

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"Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question."

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Megan Whalen Turner

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Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

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Holly Black

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I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think? Well, tell me!' His brother was silent and Edward went on: 'If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you really thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told a man the truth to his face, it would mean I was taking him seriously. And to take something so unimportant seriously means to become less than serious oneself. I, you see, lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become one of them myself.

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Milan Kundera

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"Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience--only much more convincingly." --

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Jim Butcher

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It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth -- but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it...but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

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Caroline Kettlewell

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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

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Marisha Pessl

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We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

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Chuck Klosterman

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There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

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Holly Black

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"You could still be lying," says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. "Try her." "Your pardon?" Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he's speaking in such an offhanded way. "Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty," the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. "I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth." Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I know this is necessary. I know that he doesn't intend to hurt me. I know he can't glamour me. And yet I draw back automatically. "Jude?" he asks. "Go ahead," I say. I hear the glamour enter his voice, heady and seductive and more powerful than I expected. "Crawl to me," he says with a grin. Embarrassment pinks my cheeks. I stay where I am, looking at all their faces. "Satisfied?" The Bomb nods. "You're not charmed."

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Holly Black

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"Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." , she excused her lie mentally. "

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Tamora Pierce

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"I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." "I cant," he said. "There aint anything to do? Not anything?" "I didn't say that," Grandfather said. "I said I couldn't. You can." "What?" I said. "How can I forget it? Tell me how to." "You cant," he said. "Nothing is ever forgotten. Nothing is ever lost. It's too valuable." "Then what can I do?" "Live with it," Grandfather said. "Live with it? You mean, forever? For the rest of my life? Not ever to get rid of it? Never? I cant. Dont you see that I cant?" "Yes you can," he said. "You will. A gentleman always does. A gentleman can live through anything. He faces anything. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them but only acquiesced to them, didn't say No though he knew he should."

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William Faulkner

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Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

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Rachel Cohn

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She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position. Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.

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Alexander McCall Smith

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Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

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Norman Mailer

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Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

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Aljean Harmetz

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Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

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Brené Brown

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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

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Jim Butcher

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Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

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Sam Harris

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The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

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Jennifer Crusie

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Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

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Saul Bellow

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Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.

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Bob   Smith

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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...

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Jack Kerouac

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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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"She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible."

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Chelsea Cain

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Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it. Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don't be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others - How did you get that bruise? - would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing. Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't.

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Sam Harris

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I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)

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Tim O'Brien

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Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

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Jennifer Crusie

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Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.

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Meg Cabot

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They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.

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Thomas Pynchon

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I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

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Roger Zelazny

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The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

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Sean Patrick Brennan

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Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.

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Christopher Pike