"Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them"
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"There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth."
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"The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile."
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
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"Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?"
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"Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie."
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"Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth."
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"I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man."
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"They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth."
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"It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it’s so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is."
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"The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you."
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"If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried."
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"You can only access the beautiful world through faith by truthfully embracing beauty and caring."
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"Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile."
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"REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT".."
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"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation."
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"Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear."
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"Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?"
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"The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom."
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"We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact."
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