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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?Collection: Lying
So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.Collection: Lying
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.Collection: Lying
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.Collection: Lying
The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.Collection: Lying
I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.Collection: Lying
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.Collection: Lying
Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.Collection: Lying
The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.Collection: Lying
Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.Collection: Lying
When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.Collection: Lying
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.Collection: Lying
It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.Collection: Lying
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.Collection: Lying
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.Collection: Lying
I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.Collection: Lying
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.Collection: Lying
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.Collection: Lying
The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie. But everyone goes on their own path to do this, and I don't want the struggle to be so hard for other people.Collection: Lying
It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.Collection: Lying
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.Collection: Lying
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain TagonCollection: Lying
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.Collection: Lying
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.Collection: Lying
What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.Collection: Lying
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.Collection: Lying
Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.Collection: Lying
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.Collection: Lying
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.Collection: Lying
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.Collection: Lying
One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.Collection: Lying
...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.Collection: Lying
My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.Collection: Lying
I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.Collection: Lying
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.Collection: Lying
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.Collection: Lying
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.Collection: Lying
There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.Collection: Lying
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.Collection: Lying
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.Collection: Lying
Winter is where hope lies happy.Collection: Lying
It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.Collection: Lying
...but Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth.Collection: Lying
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, MinnesotaCollection: Lying
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.Collection: Lying
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.Collection: Lying
The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.Collection: Lying
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.Collection: Lying