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Quotes About Deception

Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn't go back to my senders, so as not to be made to tell about this land and made to lie.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Es el ego quien nos engaña para que pensemos que tenemos razones para hacer lo que sea necesario con tal de imponernos sobre aquellos que percibimos como nuestros enemigos.
~ Yehuda Berg
Printemps qui s'en va La beauté Me trahit
~ Yosa Buson
She knows what it means. Oh, wonderfully bright at 6 a.m., yes, wonderfully clear for an hour . But the shorter the days, the longer the nights, the darker the house, the easier it is, the easier it is, the easier it is, to mistake a shadow for the writing on the wall, the sound of overland footsteps for the distant crack of thunder, and the midnight chime of a New Year clock for the bell that tolls the end of the world.
~ Zadie Smith
I got something to tell you, said Keisha Blake, disguising her voice with her voice.
~ Zadie Smith
or at least I felt that within the lie there was a deeper truth.
~ Zadie Smith
Still starving themselves, still reading women's magazines that explicitly hate women, still cutting themselves with little knives in places they think can't be seen, still faking their orgasms with men they dislike, still lying to everybody about everything.
~ Zadie Smith
So now I started playing hardball; now I picked the Dictaphone up and demanded to know about the shrapnel, for Harvey has some shrapnel in his groin, I know he does, and he knows I know. A doctor found it in a routine X-ray in 1991, forty-seven years after Harvey thought it had been removed. I was sixteen at the time, EMF had a hit with "Unbelievable" and I was wearing harem pants. If
~ Zadie Smith
Erskine's freckles did incredible diplomatic work for him. Howard had often wished for a similarly benign face to show the world.
~ Zadie Smith
They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢
~ Zadie Smith
Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas
~ Unknown
Viena iš vaikyst?s apgauli? yra tai, jog neb?tina suprasti, kad pajustum. Kai protas pradeda suvokti, kas vyksta, žaizdos širdyje jau b?na gana gilios.
~ Unknown
Love is indeed blind, and it makes you imagine qualities in a person that don't exist.
~ Zane
Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent.
~ Zane Grey
Carley's edifice of hopes, dreams, aspirations, and struggles fell in ruins about her. It had been built upon false sands. It had no ideal for foundation. It had to fall.
~ Zane Grey
The carpet is too soft. Also the palm tree in the lobby is unbelievable. For a long time the Maitre looks at our faces, shuffling passports in his hands. Such dark-ringed eyes, such dark-ringed eyes. I knew a merchant from Smyrna, who also had a false front tooth. Nowadays one has to be terribly careful: informers and scorpions are everywhere. In the elevator we stand facing the mirror, but already at the first jerk we see silvery mildew in the place of our faces.
~ Zbigniew Herbert
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I dreamt of traversing the globe in fancy boots, only to discover I was a mouse on a treadmill.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Zora," George Thomas informed me, "you come to de right place if lies is what you want. Ah'm gointer lie up a nation." Charlie Jones said, "Yeah, man. Me and my sworn buddy Gene Brazzle is here. Big Moose done come down from de mountain." "Now, you gointer hear lies above suspicion," Gene added.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
~ Najib Razak
TV is not accurate.
~ Joe Torre