Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.
Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
Since i was born, i have realized that; all things that people do in this world are mostly based on the lies of their grand grand parents.
When an orphan is depressed, wrote Wilbur Larch, he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what happens...
That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their...
I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
People have been telling so many lies. At the end you won't believe the simple 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...
The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes...
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, c...
I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.
As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and th...
A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their...