There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is ex...
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.
Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant it...
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfu...
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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