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Quotes About Deception

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
~ Errol Morris
To me, the Internet is a big scam.
~ Ry Cooder
The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.
~ Doja Cat
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out once again and they began collecting ears and filings from each other's heads.
~ Eve Babitz
I dressed next to her in gym (on my other side was this nice girl named Cathy whose only flaw was that she was kind of gullible and that kept me from being too shocked when I saw her in Life magazine crouched under a rock as one of the "Manson Family" and called Gypsy).
~ Eve Babitz
At that time, Haily, like the eighties to come, believed in too much, and like most of those women who think you can't have big enough closets, she still didn't look that great. Or at least she never looked kind and beautiful like Kate. She looked mean and stylish, as if she were supposed to be beautiful and you should take her word for it. From afar, she looked a lot better than close up. Sort of like America
~ Eve Babitz
Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.
~ Eve Babitz
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.
~ Everett Piper
Better mendacitiesThan the classics in paraphrase!
~ Ezra Pound
Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
~ Ezra Pound
yr/ humanity counterfeit yr/ liberty cankered with simulation
~ Ezra Pound
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Book of Mormon There is a power in the book of which will begin to flow into our lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book. You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.
~ F. Paul Wilson
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~ F. Paul Wilson
No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why do people betray their brothers and eventually themselves? -The Cripple
~ F. Sionil Jose
half the politicians are good-for-nothing; the others are ready to anything...
~ Fabrice
The man was so smooth he wouldn't slide on an oil slick.
~ Faith Hunter
Never admit you're wrong when silence lies that you're right.
~ Faith Hunter
on the outside, and all of
~ Faith Martin
mendaciously
~ Faith Martin