Lie Quotes
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
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I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.
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You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.
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Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.
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I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
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His lie ability is an asset.
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I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I'm in a good place.
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Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Nature admits no lie.
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There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
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What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
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Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
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But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
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Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.
