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Quotes About Deception

You disappoint other people. You cause people to wonder if you ever tell the truth. You cause people to stop trusting you.
~ Joy Berry
There are many ways to tell lies. You can tell lies with your actions.
~ Joy Berry
You might cause someone to believe something that is not true by acting a certain way. You are lying when you do this.
~ Joy Berry
People usually find out when you lie to them.
~ Joy Berry
It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the seat of power.
~ Joy Harjo
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know. Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it. Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie
~ Joyce Carol Oates
So they'd fucked up her life, those guys she'd trusted, for fun. What the hell.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It had well be a dream, no one would believe me anyway.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Traição é uma coisa dolorosa. Traição é a ferida mais profunda. Traição é o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If some men supposed themselves free it was only because they did not understand that they were imprisoned—bars could be made of any shadowy substance, any dreamy loss of light.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You do know, don't you, Allen, that God is a bookseller? He publishes one book-the text of suffering - over and over again. He disguises it between new boards, in different shapes and sizes, prints on varying papers, in many fonts, adds prefaces and postscripts to deceive the buyer, but it's always the same book.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Truth must evolve'—how very convenient for liars.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The
~ Joyce Carol Oates