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• I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Children, Fighting

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• It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Presidential, Facts

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• Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

  Sara Shepard

  Tv Shows, Knowing, Answers

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• For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Thinking, Records

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• When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Men, Honest

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3462, Bantam

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• It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Simple, Guy

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Compassion, Littles, Atoms

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• "I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused.

  Tamora Pierce

  Sorry, Confused, Lying

  "Alanna: The First Adventure". Book by Tamora Pierce, September 1983.

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• Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christ, Lord, Lunatic

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• All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Fake, Politician

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Lying, Essence

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• if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Self, Roles, Actors

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• The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Lying, Fall, Hypocrisy

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• Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

  Janice Dickinson

  Cameras, Hey, Fool

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• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Mean, Wings, Political

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• If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Party, Goal, Parent

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• Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Hero, Killers, Criminals

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.132, Faber & Faber

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• Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dog, School, Parent

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• Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

  Margaret Atwood

  Plato, Lying, Believe

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Lying, Vote

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm a really bad liar.

  Daniel Craig

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• Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well

  Phil Collins

  You Re A Liar, Wells, Agree

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• Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!

  Abigail Williams

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• Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

  David Jeremiah

  Men, Hell, Murderer

  David Jeremiah (2001). “Escape the Coming Night”, p.236, Thomas Nelson Inc

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