Quotes About Deception

The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.

Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…

The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.

He is fat and pink. On the United Elevator Co. advertisements, they airbrush away the pocks in his cheeks, the red slivers in his nose. In person he is too flesh, a handful of raw meat. Dogs have been known to follow him, optimistic.

It was a gorgeous and intricate delusion, Manhattan, and from crooked angles on overcast days you saw it disintegrate, were forced to consider this tenuous creature in its true nature.

You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.

You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....It's true though, your complaint. We come up with all sorts of fancy talk to hide things.

She was sure he had claimed a hundred and one years at his last party. He was only half that, which meant he was the oldest slave anyone on the two Randall plantations had ever met. Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. Nothing left for the world to show you but the latest incarnations of cruelty.

The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn't have been accidental. It wasn't her niece's greed—the old woman had played a trick on them the whole time.

OddaliÅ' siÄ™ od babci tak bardzo jak wszyscy z rodziny, którzy odeszli, cho? siedziaÅ' naprzeciwko. Podczas odwiedzin powiedziaÅ' jej, ?e jest zdrowy, tylko smutny, ?e nie jest Å'atwo, ale jakoÅ› sobie radzi, a przecie? najbardziej na Å›wiecie chciaÅ' powiedzie?: Zobacz, babciu, co oni ze mnÄ… zrobili. Zobacz, co ze mnÄ… zrobili.

Verkligheten var en föränderlig skyltning i ett butiksfönster, manipulerad av händer när man inte såg, lockande och ständigt utom räckhåll.

Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down.

the devil had long nimble fingers.

On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.

a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing

the con men never betray the game.

The elevator world will look like Heaven but not the Heaven you have reckoned.

HOLLYWOODING: Using all your years of deceiving others to put on a show at the table. Ever said, "Cute baby," about some newborn who'd found a portal between their Hell Dimension and our world? You may have a career in poker.

Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Sleep the sleep of the successful because somehow you made it through the day without anyone finding out that you are a complete fraud.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

The truth of the matter is that the light at the end of the tunnel generally belongs to the pharmaceutical companies.