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Quotes About Lie

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
~ Bob Dylan
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
~ R. S. Thomas
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
~ Edward Abbey
as you know, here at Randolph Media we reward hard work." Lisa twinkled prettily at the patent lie. Like many companies in the Western world, Randolph Media rewarded hard work with poor pay, increasing workloads, demotions and on-a-second's redundancies.
~ Marian Keyes
Lo màs importante es la verdad, que siempre es arte y en cambio la mentira no, o sòlo rara vez
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
How much sense would it make, after all, for someone involved with a kidnapping to draw attention to himself by claiming to be a witness and telling an elaborate lie?
~ Mark Bowden
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~ Simone Weil
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
~ Simone Weil
Bex...why did you buy an inflatable canoe?' 'It's for you to lie on. Or something.' 'And a watering can?' 'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi. 'But why do I need a plant spray?' 'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Life is lie, Living is the truth.
~ Naresh Soni
To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen
~ A.M.M Alusi
I think the camouflage of fiction allows more authenticity – you know, acknowledging that it is a 'fiction', a terrific lie, and that you want it to be believed.
~ John Rechy
go on, go on back down into the graveyard, lie down where you think their faces are; talk back to your old bad dreams.
~ John Searles
I think the reason that men are so very violent is that they know, deep in themselves, that they're acting out a lie, and so they're furious at being caught up in the lie. But they don't know how to break it…. They're in a rage because they are acting out a lie—which means that in some deep part of themselves they want to be delivered from it, are homesick for the truth.
~ Barbara Deming
Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.
~ Bart Yates
Loneliness is just a permanent fact of life. And if you buy into the illusion that you can somehow escape it, you're in for a world of hurt. Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.
~ Bart Yates
When a company tells its employees that they can no longer afford such "generous benefits" and will have to cut them, it is a framing lie.
~ George Lakoff
tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls
~ George Orwell
then the lie passed into history and became truth.
~ George Orwell
He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
~ George Orwell
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~ Bob Dylan
A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.
~ Jim Jones