Lie Quotes
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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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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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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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When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.
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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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Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
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The lie that started it all.
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.
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I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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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.
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
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Priorities lie in your actions.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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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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To own beauty is the first lie of it.
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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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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
