Quotes About Deception

we should have known. maybe we wanted cotton candy luck. maybe we believed. what trash. we believed like dogs believe.

About church: the trouble with a mask is it never changes.

I went into the men's room and stared in the mirror at my face in disgust. I looked like I knew something, but it was a lie, I was a fake and there's nothing worse in the world than when a man suddenly realizes and admits to himself that he's a phoney, after spending all his time up to then trying to convince himself that he wasn't. I stared at all the sinks and pipes and bowls and I felt like them, worse than them: I'd rather be them.

All that shit they were fed about democracy and opportunity was just to keep them from burning down the palace.

The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

Don't undress my love you might find a mannequin; don't undress the mannequin you might find my love.

Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

beware women grown old who were never anything but young

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

I drank in my words like a thirsty man. I even began to believe them.

but it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes.

their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.

So that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

and soon we realized that we were all lying, not exactly lying but mostly

as the fools are fooled again you wonder where the real ones are if there are real ones.

It was one of the biggest fattest lies of the century. I've been looking for that guy for years but I'm afraid somebody else has gotten to him first.

it seemed less real, and that was what was needed.

I had decided against religion a couple years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the most foolish.

y la fama y el amor nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.