Mason Cooley Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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  Lying

• Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

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  Lying, Deceit, Consciousness

• What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

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  Lying, Appearance, Behinds

• Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

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  Lying, Literature, Path

• Keep your lies short and simple.

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  Lying, Simple

• When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.

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  Lying, Eye, Looks

  "City Aphorisms: Ninth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

• Never lie in writing.

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  Lying, Writing, Never Lie

• Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

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  Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth

• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

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  Dream, Lying, Reality

• Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

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  Truth, Lying, Silent

• Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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  Lying, Lightning, May

• It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

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  Truth, Lying, Hard

• Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

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  Lying, Destiny, Diplomats

• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

• Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

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  Lying

• Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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  Lying, Poverty, Etc

• Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

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  Lying, Vanity, Healthy

• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

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  Art, Fun, Lying

• Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

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  Lying, Promise, Sufficient

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