Quotes 181 till 200 of 247.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
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The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1 -
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
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