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Quotes About Deception

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.
~ Matt Haig
Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.
~ Matt Haig
I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.
~ Matt Haig
A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news
~ Matt Haig
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. —J. G. BALLARD
~ Matt Haig
This must be the hardest bit about being a spy, she thought. The emotion people store in you, like a bad investment.
~ Matt Haig
You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream and stick with it. Everything else was a con.And once you had tasted truth and love in the same potent cocktail there had to be no more tricks.
~ Matt Haig
This must be the hardest bit about being a spy, she thought. The emotion people store in you, like a bad investment. You feel like you are robbing people of something.
~ Matt Haig
Der Turm ist meine Lieblingsfigur", sagte sie jetzt. "Man denkt, man müsse nicht auf ihn achten. Weil er sich immer unkompliziert geradeaus bewegt. Dame, Springer und Läufer behält man im Auge, weil sie sich heimlich anschleichen. Aber gerade der Turm wird einem oft zum Verhängnis. Das Umkomplizierte ist nie ganz das, was es zu sein scheint." - S. 104
~ Matt Haig
The rook is my favorite piece. It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen and the knights, and the bishop because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
The rook is my favorite piece.' she said. 'It's the one you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eyes on the queen, and the knight and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But is the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
You possess a young face and a wise tongue. People hate that. They know it could fool them.
~ Matt Haig
A quote I heard recently: "Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.
~ Matt Haig
It can affect people—millionaires, people with good hair, happily married people, people who have just landed a promotion, people who can tap dance and do card tricks and strum a guitar, people who have no noticeable pores, people who exude happiness in their status updates—who seem, from the outside, to have no reason to be miserable.
~ Matt Haig
es un libro de los que leen para sentirse inteligentes, o de los que fingen no haber leído nunca para seguir pareciendo inteligentes?
~ Matt Haig
La facultate, prietenii nostri ne-au considerat mereu un cuplu fericit. Si chiar eram. Mai putin in cealalta jumatate a timpului in care eram un cuplu nefericit.
~ Matt Haig
How To Spot A Liar And since we are already talking about lying, you must know that there are a number of ways to spot a liar. Among the most obvious are in their smile and through eye contact. Experts would say that a genuine smile is impossible to fake. Everyone knows how to smile for the camera, and perhaps this is also something we use when we greet other people. But a genuine smile is different because the emotion shows in a person's eyes.
~ Matt Morris
The thing people overlook, though," Mr. Fox added, "is that that whole part of the story describing the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde, that's all Dr. Jekyll talking. And you can't trust Jekyll." As Mr. Fox spoke he looked away from the chessboard, and his daughter took the opportunity to sneak her queen onto a different square.
~ Unknown
We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.
~ Matt Taibbi
TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That
~ Matt Taibbi
Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark.
~ Matt Taibbi
By February 2016, when Trump was already steaming toward the nomination, I began to realize the extent to which he'd conned all of us. He first used the media's financial desperation to secure free coverage, but when the attention became not just negative but condemnatory, he used that, too. He
~ Matt Taibbi
He was a walking cut corner, a thumb on the scale of American history. The
~ Matt Taibbi
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections
~ Matt Taibbi