Quotes About Deception

Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.

The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.

You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more.

People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

The moment the colorful papier-mâché burst, instead of Tootsie Rolls or Hershey's Kisses, everyone present was showered with Vicodins, Darvons, Percodans, amyl nitrate ampoules, LSD stamps, and assorted barbiturates. The now-wealthy, now-middle-aged parents were ecstatic, while my little friends and I couldn't help but feel a tad bit cheated.

A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

I don't answer. I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five. A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

Everything you remember is wrong.

La gente está siempre dispuesta a creer lo contrario de lo que cuentas.

z?u dac? dobitocul ?sta mic nu merita o scatoalc?. De fapt, merita tot ce i s-a întîmplat. Pentru c? s-a am?git s? cread? c? viitorul îi va aduce numai lucruri bune. Cu condiÅ£ia s? munceÅŸti din greu. S? înveÅ£i din greu. S? alergi din greu. Åži-atunci toate îÅ£i vor merge strun?, iar viaÅ£a ta va avea un sens.

Okay, the way I figure it, you're just the subject of an experiment and the whole world you know is just an artificial construct populated by actors who play the roles of everybody in your life, and the weather is just special effects and the sky is painted blue and the landscape everywhere is just a set. Is that it?

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage," Adam says. "You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.

Arson. Assault. Mischief and Misinformation.

We're the culture that cried wolf. These

You're going up and up and up and not getting anywhere. It's the illusion of progress. What you want to think is your salvation. What people forget is a

To vÅ¡e se dÄ›je až poté, co se ukázalo, že to celé o Velikono?ním zají?kovi byl kec. I po odhalení podvod? s JežíÅ¡kem a s vílou kmotÃ…â"¢i?kou a se svatým KryÅ¡tofem a s newtonovskou fyzikou a s modelem atomu podle Nielse Bohra, i potom ten pitomý klu?ina poÃ…â"¢ád v??il mamce.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Marla... maldita turista, su mentira reflejaba la mía.