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.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gest...
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he'...
We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The...
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
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...
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only...
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.So we can believe the big ones?YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are what make you r...
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...
You know I love you. You're the only one.She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge,...
You know all of the young gentlemen better than I do, Lady Manston continued. Are there any we should avoid? All of them, George wanted to say. ''What about Ashbourne’s son?''No. No? his mother echoe...
You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
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