Liar Quotes
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
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I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
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I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
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Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
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You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
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I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
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I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
