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Quotes About Deception

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
~ Denis Johnson
I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.
~ Denis Johnson
I wonder if any man in Mancetter will have an ounce of pride remaining when all of this is said and done. To think we were haunted and hoodwinked by our own children.
~ Denise Domning
La historia cotidiana de nuestro país está escrita así: todo lo que parece que es, no es. Todo lo que debería de ser, tampoco será. Lo que realmente está sucediendo es lo impensable, lo improbable, lo imposible.
~ Denise Dresser
Me again, please don't hang up, Meri. Meridith." He sighed into the phone. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you who I was. I was afraid of losing the kids . . . now I'm afraid I've lost you." There was a pause, and Meridith pressed the phone to her ear, afraid she'd hear the click of him hanging up. "I miss you, Meri. I love y—" Meridith jabbed the Delete button, and Jake's voice was gone. She knew her limits. It
~ Denise Hunter
He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.
~ Denise Hunter
I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")
~ Denise Levertov
What you seem to like in my drawings is how they reveal the dark underside, or whatever it's called, of people you wouldn't think were particularly screwed up. But you should know the real goal of my work is a Dorian Gray type of thing. I make you look awful, and I start to look really good….
~ Dennis Cooper
Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.
~ Dennis Cooper
I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don't know how to give it decent subtitles yet.
~ Dennis Cooper
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")
~ Dennis Etchison
And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real
~ Dennis Lee
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
~ Dennis Lehane
Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
~ Dennis Lehane
The hoax worked because of the West's absolute belief in its superiority to people of color; if a savvy Westerner could not explain such a trick, it must be real. The rope trick filled a cultural need—and revealed the gullibility that such delusions of superiority inevitably create.
~ Dennis McNally
Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
~ Dennis Miller
Can you trust those people who are careless with the truth? Being untruthful, even in small matters, one loses the credibility, and such people mustn't be trusted with important matters any time.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
La vérité est la chose la plus pure et la plus belle du monde. Ce est la façon dont il se fait manipulé la vérité semblent frelaté et pas si belle.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nous ne sommes pas travaillé jusqu'à tout simplement parce que quelqu'un nous a menti, mais surtout parce que nous ne pouvons plus faire confiance à cette personne ou quelqu'un d'autre après l'amère expérience. Il est l'affaire d'une trahison de la confiance et une violation de l'innocence qui est absolument irréparable.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nous ne vous énervez pas simplement parce que quelqu'un nous a menti. Nous perturbons principalement parce que partir de ce moment nous ne pouvons pas faire confiance à nouveau, pas seulement cette personne, mais tout le monde. Il peut ne pas être trop difficile de pardonner et d'oublier, mais il est presque impossible de réparer ce que la confiance brisée.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nous nous trouvons parfois debout soit dans le milieu de malentendu malheureux, ou entrer dans totalement involontairement. Maletendus peuvent souvent survenir en raison de notre lecture indue entre les lignes, ou d'entendre les non-dits. parfois, il est prudent d'accepter et de confiance, et de prendre tout à sa valeur nominale; malgré tant de mensonges et de tromperies flagrantes tout autour.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nous savons que tout ce qui brille ne est pas or, mais ce est de l'or brille toujours. Même tout ce qui semble belle ne est pas bon, mais ce qui eat bon est toujours belle. Votre perception et la réalité peuvent être radicalement différent, alors ne vous laissez pas berner par les apparences qui sont souvent trompeuses. Toujours regarder plus profond, et la vraie beauté va se révéler.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
oh, wie glatt, wie schnell und schrecklich, wie grausam und gründlich, entdeckt man die Befugnisse und Fähigkeiten von Maya, die h
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Sok esemény az életben lehet hasonlítani az egyre távolodó délibáb, hogy mindig megtéveszteni az utazó a sivatagban. Néha futni után csábító vonzó álmok a reményben, ?ket, de mindhiába. egy bizonyos szakaszában, ráj.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate