Lie Quotes
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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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Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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Priorities lie in your actions.
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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
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It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
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Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!
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Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.
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Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.
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In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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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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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.
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To own beauty is the first lie of it.
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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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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
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Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
