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Quotes About Deception

Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.
~ Don DeLillo
There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
~ Don DeLillo
I am the false character that follows the name around.
~ Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
~ Don DeLillo
All human existence is a trick of light.
~ Don DeLillo
It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.
~ Don DeLillo
The police had consulted Adele T. on a number of occasions and she had led them to two bludgeoned bodies, a Syrian in a refrigerator and a cache of marked bills totaling six hundred thousand dollars, although in each instance, the report concluded, the police had been looking for something else. The American mystery deepens.
~ Don DeLillo
This is why we are here. A tiny minority. To embody old things, old beliefs. The devil, the angels, heaven, hell. If we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse." "Pretend?" "Of course pretend. Do you think we are stupid? Get out from here." "You don't believe in heaven? A nun?" "If you don't, why should I?" "If you did, maybe I would." "If I did, you would not have to.
~ Don DeLillo
The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal.
~ Don DeLillo
He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enrage Babette, either that or his need to confess it, and she hit out at him - hit out with the backs of her hands, with her elbows and wrists. Old loves, old fears.
~ Don DeLillo
Combien de commencements avant de voir les mensonges dans son propre enthousiasme ?
~ Don DeLillo
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some of them are lies.
~ Donald Barthelme
It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.
~ Donald Barthelme
Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They've all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don't know what they're talking about.
~ Donald J. Trump
You are fake news.
~ Donald J. Trump
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.
~ Donald Miller
I thought about how there are so many lies in fear. So much deception. What else keeps us from living a better story than fear?
~ Donald Miller
I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.
~ Donald Miller
The king and queen wanted to be done with him, although Louis seemed pleased to see him soon after the motley invasion. But the queen's blue eyes remained cold. "It would be better to perish," she quipped, "than to be saved by M. de Lafayette.
~ Donald Miller
believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.
~ Donald Miller
I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.
~ Donald Miller
I'm Donald Trump a liar that eats children and gets idiots outraged over dumb sh*t that isn't true but feels true.
~ Donald Trump
Patta's expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?
~ Donna Leon