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Image of Bertolt Brecht
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Image of Bertolt Brecht
In the contradiction lies the hope.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Image of Louise Fitzhugh
Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth
- Louise Fitzhugh
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Image of Alexander von Humboldt
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
- Alexander von Humboldt
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Image of Helen McCrory
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
- Helen McCrory
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Image of Muqtada al Sadr
If responsibility is not in the hands of the Iraqi government, then I consider the responsibility for this event lies with the occupation forces which should either leave immediately or according to a timetable.
- Muqtada al Sadr
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Image of Mickey Rourke
Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.
- Mickey Rourke
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Image of Tiffanie DeBartolo
Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Image of Ian McDonald
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
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Image of Kenneth Branagh
Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.
- Kenneth Branagh
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Image of Roger Moore
Of course, I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.
- Roger Moore
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Image of B. Traven
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.
- B. Traven
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Image of Banana Yoshimoto
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
- Banana Yoshimoto
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Image of Ilsa J. Bick
We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.
- Ilsa J. Bick
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Image of Julian Bond
People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.
- Julian Bond
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Image of Young-Ha Kim
A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.
- Young-Ha Kim
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Image of Eric Metaxas
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.
- Eric Metaxas
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Image of William L. Shirer
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.
- William L. Shirer
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Image of Mike Carey
They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.
- Mike Carey
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Image of Mike Carey
All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.
- Mike Carey
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Image of Ron Currie Jr.
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.
- Ron Currie Jr.
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Image of Duane Michals
Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.
- Duane Michals
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Image of Stephenie Meyer
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
- Stephenie Meyer
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Image of Oswald Spengler
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.
- Oswald Spengler
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Image of William Least Heat-Moon
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
- William Least Heat-Moon
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Image of Billy Boyd
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
- Billy Boyd
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Image of Algernon Blackwood
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
- Algernon Blackwood
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Image of Paul Bowles
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
- Paul Bowles
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Image of Gene Stratton-Porter
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.
- Gene Stratton-Porter
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Image of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Image of P.D. Ouspensky
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
- P.D. Ouspensky
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Image of Frank Portman
I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.
- Frank Portman
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Image of Kenneth Rexroth
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.
- Kenneth Rexroth
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Image of Kenneth Rexroth
Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.
- Kenneth Rexroth
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Image of Barbara Mertz
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
- Barbara Mertz
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Image of Paul Robeson
We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.
- Paul Robeson
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Image of Paul Robeson
We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
- Paul Robeson
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Image of Margaret Edson
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.
- Margaret Edson
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Image of Aneurin Bevan
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
- Aneurin Bevan
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Image of Osamu Dazai
What uneasiness lies in being loved.
- Osamu Dazai
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Image of Rosemary Clement-Moore
Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.
- Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Image of Sara Gran
Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.
- Sara Gran
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Image of Richard M. Nixon
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
- Richard M. Nixon
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Image of Rainbow Rowell
Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.
- Rainbow Rowell
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Image of Larissa Ione
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her, not him, and there was no lying about that. "I'm starting to feel like a Tootsie Pop, here" he rasped. She couldn't contain a smile. " Yes... how did that old commercial go?" She licked him. "One." She licked him again, and he moaned. "Two." She licked him once more, and his hips came off the bed, "Three.
- Larissa Ione
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Image of W.N.P. Barbellion
Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.
- W.N.P. Barbellion
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Image of W.N.P. Barbellion
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.
- W.N.P. Barbellion
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Image of Mark Driscoll
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
- Mark Driscoll
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Image of Anthony Venn-Brown
It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie
- Anthony Venn-Brown
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