Lying Quotes - Page 24

• With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

  Gao Xingjian

  Trying, Alive, Process

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• You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Integrity, Live Your Life, World

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

  Nikki Sixx

  Blood, World, Sides

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, People, Trust Me

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• It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wall, Sitting, Toilets

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Feelings, Next, Lost

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Sweet, Mean, Pride

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

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• Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put you out on the street and do this myself." Claire swallowed. "Uh, yeah." "With what?" "Silver-coated stakes, wooden stakes, a crossbow, about ten bolts . . . oh, and a squirt gun with some silver-nitrate solution." He smiled grimly at the dark windshield. "What, no grenade launchers?" "Would they work?" "I choose not to comment.

  Rachel Caine

  Dark, Gun, Silver

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• What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Light, Waiting

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Heart, Difficult Work, Matter

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• Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences

  Annie Ernaux

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Annie Ernaux (2011). “Simple Passion”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave

  J.R. Ward

  Remember Something, Said, Thighs

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• G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave

  J.R. Ward

  Real, Southern Drawl, Promise

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• I hate to tell you, dragon, but that's an integral part of the whole usiness," he whispered. "If you're afraid to touch me then we're not going to get very far." She lifted her head to look at him. "I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me," she said with complete honesty. He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. "This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part.

  Anne Stuart

  Honesty, Hate, Love You

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• Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Real, Mean, People

  Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

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• I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

  Matt Groening

  Writing, Fiction, Mouths

  "Fictional Character: Homer Simpson". "In a way, they're all winners: 10 Simpsons episodes from the past 5 seasons that stand among the series' best" by Steve Heisler, Kyle Ryan, and Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.

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• But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

  Lionel Shriver

  Liars, Successful, Thinking

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Intellectual, Groups

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• Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

  Dylan Thomas

  Heart, Winning, Clouds

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• The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sex, Sea, Saws

  Dylan Thomas (1975). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”

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• I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.

  Amy Winehouse

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  Song: I Heard Love Is Blind Teo Licks, Album: Frank, 2003

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• From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Heart, Voice

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Liars, Eye, Men

  F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.125, Macmillan

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• The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Memories, Grief, Men

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• For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

  Agatha Christie

  Running, Long, People

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1953). “FUNERALS ARE FATAL”

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