"Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth."
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"Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth."
"When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties."
"All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie was right-maybe secrets were more the problem than the solution. Maybe Kenzie was the only clearheaded person in that room. And yet-he couldn't supress a twinge of fear that if he told the truth, he'd never see Emma again. Never hear her music again. Their musical connection was the closest he'd ever come to slacking his thirst for a human touch."
"Truth with love is a lie"
"Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip so you couldn't go. The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want it or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar."
"Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth."
"As falsehood peels like paint, eternal truth is uncovered."
"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude."
"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
"I lie about lying, which means I can lie"
"As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie."
"Only God can tell a truly plausible lie."
"Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie."
"Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth."
"Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie."
"The truth , refutes the lie."
"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead."
"Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical."
"Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
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