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Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.
— Lindsey Leavitt, Sean Griswold's Head
You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.
— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone
Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)
— Mary McCarthy
Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.
— Lacey Thorn
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
— Ian McDonald, Brasyl
Lying is a full time occupation, even if you tell just one, because once you tell it, you're stuck with it. If you want to do it right, you have to visualize it, conjure the graphics, tone, and sequence of action, then relate it purposefully in the midst of seemingly spontaneous dialogue. The more actual the lie becomes to the listener, the more actual it becomes to the teller, which is scariest of all. Some people really get to believing their own lies.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.
— Philip K. Dick
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
— Franz Kafka
What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore
— John Steinbeck
But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
— Anne Rice, Blood And Gold
Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.
— Susan  Bennett, Late Discoveries: An Adoptee's Quest for Truth
...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...
— Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?
— Iwan Goll
Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)
— Wendell Berry
When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow's falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.
— John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you
— Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
— Bernhard Schlink
I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth—safeguard it like wearing fake gems to keep the real ones from getting stolen or cheapened by overuse. I guarded what truths I possessed because information was not a thing—it was colorless odorless shapeless and therefore indestructible. There was no way to retrieve or void it no way to halt its proliferation. Telling someone a secret was like storing plutonium inside a sandwich bag the information would inevitably outlive the friendship or love or trust in which you’d placed it. And then you would have given it away.
— Jennifer Egan, Look at Me
When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.
— Mark Mirabello, The Odin Brotherhood
Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants
Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that not so for all of us?
— Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. 
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.
— Shannon L. Alder
a thing may happen and be a total lie
—  another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth
Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.
— Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
For about four years, I’ve been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates sour cream. I told him I hated it too so we could have a funny thing in common.
— Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this
— David Mamet
You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so--Lying.How have you not murdered that creature by now?Oh, I've tried.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 2
Lying is a thriving vocation.
— Susanna Centlivre
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
— Barack Obama
Secret is the mother of all lies.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
And the bummer thing is, ghosts never leave. They might leave you alone sometimes, but they're always there deep down, whispering lies in your ear. They echo the lies others told you: That you're not smart enough; that you're not pretty; that you'll never amount to anything.
— Josh Shipp, The Teen's Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it`s not a lie.
— Mark Wahlberg
Not if you like lies so much you want to live one
— Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4
The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.
— Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it
Mankind ain't special, Kiddo.It's just you who wanna be so.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he’s not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned.Stretched on the rack and burned with hot irons, Dexter Predo will be in no danger of revealing the truth. Living so far beyond its borders.
— Charlie Huston, Every Last Drop
A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.
— Iwan Goll
Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitable present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.
— Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.
— Nikolai Grozni, Wunderkind
You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.
— Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
— Betty  Smith
During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and 'experience' to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much from the position adopted by the Bush administration as she emphasized the stand taken, by both her husband and Al Gore, when they were in office, to the effect that another and final confrontation with the Baathist regime was more or less inevitable. Now, it does not especially matter whether you agree or agreed with her about this (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband’s help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration?
— Christopher Hitchens
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
— Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from without. The simplest lie to myself, buried though it may be in the silence of my soul, may yet be as dangerous to my inner liberty as an act of treachery on the marketplace. Widfom and Destiny
— Maurice Maeterlinck
You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.
— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.
— DaShanne Stokes
Is it really a Lie if someone is unwilling to see the Truth?
— Soman Chainani, Quests for Glory
Sometimes more is hidden behind a truth than a pack of lies.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
[B]eware trying to bend the Truth to fit your story instead of facing it head-on. That was your father's mistake. And that's how a Snake becomes a Lion and a Lion becomes a Snake. Because the more you bend the Truth to fit a story, the more it turns into Lies without you even realizing it.
— Soman Chainani, Quests for Glory
You’re such a great liar when you lie to yourself.
— Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony
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— Stephanie Wallace
Only lies are subtle. Truth walks right up to you in the street and kicks you in the ass.
— Marty Rubin
How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead.
— Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
If your argument is based on a lie, you shouldn't make it.
— T.J. Kirk
Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)
— Erik Pevernagie
Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and i also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that i will never ever believe you.
— Arash Tabish
There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.
— Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.
— Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it
— Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted
We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that in plenty of homes where I played with schoolmates, and went to their parties, children lied to their parents and parents lied to their children and to each other. It took me a long time to realize that these very same everyday lies, and the stratagems and jokes and tricks and dares that went with them, were in fact the basis of the scenes I so well loved to hear about and hoped for and treasured in the conversation of adults. My instinct - the dramatic instinct - was to lead me, eventually, on the right track for a storyteller: the scene was full of hints, pointers, suggestions, and promises of things to find out and know about human beings.I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken - and to know a truth, I also had to recognize a lie.
— Eudora Welty
If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.Remember: Just because it's black and white, doesn't automatically make it a zebra.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Then she called Matthew.He answered, "Where the fuck are you? I've been calling you for hours."She said, "I was asleep. Just woke up. What's the problem?""Don't tell me you're still in your hotel room in your bed.""Didn't I say I just woke up? Still in bed. Needed some sleep. Just waking up. . . .""Is that right?". . . "Where are you right now?""Antigua motherfucking Yacht Club. Room twenty-fucking-nine. Sitting on a . . . four-poster bed that has a damn mosquito net pulled back so I know I can see what the fuck I see. And I see an empty four-poster bed . . . But hell, maybe I'm wrong, because I know I didn't marry a goddamn liar. So I guess if I'm in your room and you're in the goddamn bed, just waking up, then either I am as blind as a fucking bat or you must be fucking invisible.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Dying for Revenge
A lie has more dynamic than truth but truth has more potential.
— R.A.Delmonico
Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed
— Munia Khan
Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.
— Scott Stabile
Why do we tell lies? We lie because the truth is too painful or too shameful for us to face, or because the truth is simply inconvenient and has to be suppressed before it’s allowed to disturb us. We invent lies because, for whatever reason, we want to invent reality. And the false reality which we invent, the world we make up by our lying, has one great advantage for us: It makes no claim on us. It demands nothing. It doesn’t shape us in the way that truth shapes us; it faces us with no obligations; it has no hard, resistant surfaces which we can’t get through. A lie is a made-up reality, and so never unsettles, never criticizes, never resists, never overthrows us. It’s the world, not as it is, but as we wish it to be: a world organized around us and our desires, the perfect environment in which we can be left at peace to be ourselves and to follow our own good or evil purposes.
— John Webster
She struts into the hair salon, her mouth filled with a rotten egg of gossip, unshelled, filled with decay. As soon as she sits down she bites into the shell, and the stink of her lies fills the air, its goo dripping down her chin. With her new haircut she exits, leaving behind the putrid evidence that she’s as corrupt as the egg of lies she spread.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
— DaShanne Stokes
You're human. It's one of the things humans do. Lies just spring out, even unbidden and unintended.
— C.J. Brightley, The Lord of Dreams
My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.
— Deyth Banger
Is a lie still a lieif you say it pretty?
— Fortesa Latifi
Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.
— Ted Sanders
When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.
— Bethany Brand
Stop Pretending Anything Than What You Really Are_nickc
— nick catricala
President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.
— Steven Magee
The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
There was never one truth. Even the Higgs could still be used to prove opposing theories, its mass falling between them on a chart. Besides, I told myself, my breathing heavy, eyes widening until they bulged, I was post-truth.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
If I lie to you, it's either because I'm scared of you or scared of losing you.
— Karishma Magvani
Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")
— Erik Pevernagie
It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.
— Tana French, The Secret Place
This is the thing about a lie: over time, it not only obscures the truth but consumes it. Those who pursue veracity (those dogooders, those seekers) see truth not as an abstract thing but something concrete. Strong, vivid, with an unassailable right to prevail. But those who fight for it, who fight in the name of it, do not understand that truth is anemic, weak. Especially in the hands of an accomplished liar. Especially over years. A lie, in collusion with time, can overpower the truth. A good lie has the power to subsume reality. A good lie can become the truth.
— T. Greenwood, The Golden Hour
If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
With each glare words escape me, yet no ears care to listen. It is cold here with her stare, judging every affair. My mind fiddles beneath the changeless confines of this betrayal as we hide behind deceitful wails. We have become trapped in lies long forgotten—squandering our time in lunacy with the thought of what was and is no more.
— H.S. Crow
Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
false swears are like sweet poison and cancer , its work slowly without acknowledgment but take the till end like cancer
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.
— Mark  Lawrence, Red Sister
everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.
— Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer
Be terrified. Nothing in life is certain. It does not owe you anything, and if it decides to take something from you it will. You must accept this truth. Accept the dreadful possibility that your blind optimism is merely a fancied lie.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
If someone lied to you, and you positively know this is true, you may find delight in telling them they are the most honest person you know; continue flattering them, giving them the most wonderful compliments, including how you're so thankful to have such an honest person in such a deceptive world. But, then again, this may very well make you a liar too.
— K.R. Royal
It's a lie that matches his desire.
— Naomi Novik, Uprooted
When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Malachi 3: 8-9 is probably the most misrepresented scripture tithing advocates quote in the Bible. They contend that anyone that does not pay tithe is robbing God and will be cursed. However, Malachi was not speaking to the Jewish nation he was speaking to the priests. The priests were the ones criticized for robbing God and received the curse for failing to follow God’s ordinances. They were withholding the best meats for themselves and offering God “blemished” sacrifices.Pastors that knowingly deceive others by preaching a false tithing doctrine are the real thieves and are no different than the priests that Malachi rebuked. They are blind guides that lead God’s people astray. They have cherry picked certain principles from God’s tithing system and turned it into something that looks nothing like Moses’ design. It is an inequitable system that does not provide for the poor and allow prosperity preachers and false teachers to profit far beyond the members of their congregation.
— Terrence Jameson, The Tithing Conspiracy: Exposing the Lies & False Teachings about Tithing and the Prosperity Gospel
And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same means, the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become engrained in Eichmann's mentality. These lies changed from year to year, and they frequently contradicted each other; moreover, they were not necessarily the same for the various branches of the Party hierarchy or the people at large. But the practice of self-deception had become so common, almost a moral prerequisite for survival, that even now, eighteen years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, when most of the specific content of its lies has been forgotten, it is sometimes difficult not to believe that mendacity has become an integral part of the German national character.
— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
I'd watched enough TV in the lonely afternoons after school, before there was a cheese shop to go to, to know that there were boys who lied, who knew how to say just the right thing or give you just the right look. Boys who could make you feel a way you thought you didn't deserve to feel.
— Dana Reinhardt, The Summer I Learned to Fly
You will write about that... you will write this and this and this... you gonna do that and that......Promises and promises... leaks in the holes!
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
— DaShanne Stokes
All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.
— Jeffrey Fry
If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
— Traci Chee, The Reader
Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie, " he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.
— Katie McGarry, Chasing Impossible
Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’ 
— Tony Schwartz
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
— Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.
— Chuck Todd
Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
— Robin M. King, Van Gogh Gone
[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions
The ability of extension lies in responsibility
— Sunday Adelaja
She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.
— Homin Hieger
To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...
— Josh Burggraf, Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology
There were kind lies. You still look beautiful. I love you. I forgive you.There were frightened lies. Someone else must have taken it. Of course I am Anglican. I never saw that baby before.There were predatory lies. Buy this tonic if you want your child to recover. I will look after you. Your secret is safe with me.Half-lies, and the tense little silences where a truth should have been. Lies like knives, lies like poultices. The tiger's stripe, and the fawn's dusky dapple. And everywhere, everywhere, the lies that people told themselves. Dreams like cut flowers, with no nourishing root. Will-o'-the-wisp lights to make them feel less alone in the dark. Hollow resolutions and empty excuses.
— Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.
— Kayla Krantz, The Council
Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders
— Sunday Adelaja
[N]o lie can live forever...
— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
We often agree with the devil’s lies and support his opinion about us by our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.
— DaShanne Stokes
Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn’t really know you?
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
You lied to me,” she said. “I omitted information.” He paused. “Which may be just as deplorable.
— Hayden Wand, Once: Six Historically Inspired Fairytales
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. There are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay bout the lies.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something He can demand of any of us, leap.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Just as I'd realize that I couldn't keep lying to her because I was in love with her, She'd realize that you can't love a lie."Preston Drake - "Just for Now
— Abbi Glines, Just for Now
Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me had clearly gained near-universal acceptance. I knew then that, regardless of what transpired here, my home was now lost to me. It wasn’t just that these people would never accept me, more that I would never forgive their gullibility.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
That will teach a bitch for buying the same dam shoes as mine and for opening a shop on my block...Charli
— Kim  Morris, Slipping in the Darkness
Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't.
— Margaux Bergen, Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
— Gore Vidal
The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth is like a double edged sword.Truth, as in the colors of the rainbow, are truths, not to be confused with THE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, all colors and no single color.The Truth is like a tree, with all its fruit, while truths are like the fruit on the tree, part of the whole; parts of The Truth, half-truths.Truth can be true, yet it can also lie.So the question is does truth lead to THE TRUTH, or do truths lead us to a lie ? To see the difference is the key to the gates of Eden.
— Caesar J. B. Squitti, The Jesus Christ Code: The Light: The Rainbow of Truths
It's okay for you to lie but not for me to try
— Maite
I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
— Amanda Craig, A Private Place
Hey, Sam,” Drake shouted. “I thought you’d like to know this isn’t my whole army.”Sam didn’t doubt it.“Your girl Brianna tried to stop us.” Drake waved a bowie knife in the air. “I took this from her. I whipped her, Sam.” He snapped his whip hand. The crack was like a pistol shot. “I broke her legs so she couldn’t run. Then . . .”Dekka was halfway over the side, ready to swim ashore. Jack grabbed her and held her.“Let me go!” Dekka yelled.“Hold her,” Sam ordered Jack. “Don’t be stupid, Dekka. He wants us to come rushing at him.”“I can beat him,” Jack said. “Dekka and me together, we can kill him.”Sam registered the fact that Jack was actually making a physical threat. He didn’t remember ever hearing that kind of thing from Jack. But Dekka was Sam’s greater concern.“I’m going to kill him,” Dekka said in a voice so deep in her throat she sounded like an animal. “I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him.” Then she shouted, “I’m going to kill you, Drake. I’m going to kill you!”Drake grinned. “I think she liked it. She was screaming, but she liked it.”“He’s lying,” Toto said.“Who?” Sam snapped.“Him.” He pointed at Drake. “He hasn’t killed that girl or hurt her.”Dekka relaxed and Sam and Jack let go of her.“Truth-teller Toto,” Sam whispered. “He can tell when people are lying.”“I just decided I like you,” Dekka said to Toto. “You might be useful.”Toto frowned. “It’s true: you just decided you like me.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
If somebody tell you.... Always you to tell the truth, tell him... in the end both = Same result.... as for others reasons; I think I said too much.
— Deyth Banger
He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by exploiting his vanity. He can... enjoy kneeling beside the grocer on Sunday just because he remembers that the grocer could not possibly understand the urbane and mocking world which he inhabited on Saturday evening; and contrariwise, to enjoy the bawdy and blasphemy over the coffee with these admirable friends all the more because he is aware of a "deeper," "spiritual" world within him which they can not understand. You see the idea - the worldly friends touch him on one side and the grocer on the other, and he is the complete, balanced, complex man who sees round them all. Thus, while being permanently treacherous to at least two sets of people, he will feel, instead of same, a continual under-current of self-satisfaction... and that to cease to do so would be "priggish," "intolerant," and... "Puritanical.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Was I a secret not worth sharingOrWas I a fact not worth telling?
— Dawn Lanuza, The Last Time I'll Write About You
Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It's really hard to deal with a narrow-minded people that have a limited sphere of thinking, what ever you tell him/herwill be twisted into falsehood, the truth will be lost and will ruin everything.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire
— Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
He’s looking at her with so much compassion. Like he knows what she’s going through. Like he cares about her. This is what she wanted to see after everything happened with Luke. Instead, she saw Jonah’s back, every time he turned and walked away from her.She blurts, “Why are you being nice to me?"She regrets it immediately. It’s the vulnerability talking. The fear. The adrenaline. For a second, she forgot the aloof, thick-skinned Hallelujah she needs to be.Jonah relaxes his grip. He looks away, out into the wet woods. He waits a long time before speaking. “Luke told me.”Hallelujah is instantly tense. “Luke told you what?”Another long pause. “That he lied. About what happened that night.”“What happened?” Rachel cuts in. “What’d Luke lie about?”Hallelujah ignores her. She stays focused on Jonah, even though he won’t look at her. “What’d he tell you originally?”Jonah flinches. “He made it . . . worse. Than what he told the adults. He said that that wasn’t the first time. And he said that you—”“Never mind,” Hallelujah cuts in. “I can guess.” She’s heard the rumors. The persistent ones and the surprising, weird, creative ones. She bets there are a lot that she hasn’t heard, too. “None of that happened,” she says softly but firmly, certain without even knowing exactly what Luke said. What Jonah heard. “None of it.”“That’s what he told me yesterday. I wanted to know why he was still—” He swallows, his Adam’s apple moving up and down. “I’d heard him and Brad laughing about what they were gonna do to you this week, and I was like, enough is enough. Time to let it go. So I asked him what was up. Why he was still messing with you.”“And?” Hallelujah asks.“And he told me the truth: that he’d made most of it up. He said he had to keep you quiet. Plus, um. He said messing with you was fun.”Hallelujah lets that sink in. “You really didn’t know it was a lie? You believed him this whole time?”Jonah suddenly looks right at her. His eyes plead. “I saw you, Hallie. And Luke was the only one of the two of you with a story to explain it.
— Kathryn Holmes
If you look at the world today, lies are mainstream. Truth is a fringe phenomenon.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value.
— Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies... this is the iceberg.
— Deyth Banger
Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
— Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne
The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
— Robin Jarvis, Whortle's Hope
Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,Secrets and cheats R not only predictedto fail but also a waste of precious timeand energie! U can’t fool yourself 4ever!
— Lily Amis, Angel of Love  Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.
— Emily Hainsworth, Take The Fall
The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
— Michael Moorcock, The Bane of the Black Sword
You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.
— Steven Magee
May you live a life as holy and perfect as you pretend it to be in Facebook
— Maria Nieves
In the soul of all liars, the unparalleled truth is a sickness. The unparalleled truth shall come out but first the liars will stretch their calumny. His past crimes shall haunt his heart. His evil ways shall torment his soul. The web of lies will fill up his brain cells. His secrets however hidden shall eventually come out. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my K.H. Trilogy
— Angelica Hopes
She said I’m perfect“I just love the way she lies.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum
Know sincere well through the real acts of sincere and not just through its mere words and deceptive actions that end in deep regret before you give your true heart to sincere. So many people have trusted because of sincere but they only saw the mere word and image of sincere and not the real meaning and action of sincere!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Your tongue may speak lies, but your eyes know the truth.
— Amber Jacobs
His lies flowed eloquently like honey flowing from a hot spoon
— Charmaine J. Forde
The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her. We betray her routinely, spending hours and days stupor-deep in lies, and then turn back to her holding out the lover's ultimate Möbius strip: But I only did it because I love you so much.
— Tana French, In the Woods
I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.
— Deyth Banger
The truth costs.Lies cost more.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The drinking parent lied to the sober parent
—  the sober parent deceived the drinking parent. Most children of alcoholics have learned that no one can be trusted.
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I know betrayal can unravel a man. I learned early on from watching my parents that men are capable of doing terrible things to women when they feel deceived. When the bubble of trust and honesty bursts, nothing is off-limits.
— Sadeqa Johnson, Second House from the Corner
Why do you think it is stupid to go to windows instead of to doors?”“Because you advertise what you’re trying to hide, silly. If I have a secret, I don’t put tape over my mouth and let everyone know I have a secret. I talk just as much as usual, only about something else. Didn’t you ever read any of the sayings of Salvor Hardin? He was our first Mayor, you know.”“Yes, I know.”“Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true. Well, when you come in through a window, it’s a lie that’s ashamed of itself and it doesn’t sound true.”“Then what would you have done?”“If I had wanted to see my father on top secret business, I would have made his acquaintance openly and seen him about all sorts of strictly legitimate things. And then when everyone knew all about you and connected you with my father as a matter of course, you could be as top secret as you wanted and nobody would ever think of questioning it.
— Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation
This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good
— Luke Scull, Sword of the North
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
— Deyth Banger
A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.
— Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig