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• The abbot told me once that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide it rather than accept yourself for who you really are. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him as his reputation. In the end, who is the braver? The man who dies rather than be thought of as a coward or the man who lives willing to face who he really is?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Betrayal, Reality, Men

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• This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

  Tariq Ali

  Heart, Order, Survival

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.75, Verso Books

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• I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

  Frank Portman

  Mean, Class, Trying

  Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

  Sara Gruen

  Dream, Horse, Soul

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Thinking, Glasses, Roger

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1528, Dell

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• All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Voice, Changed

  Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Past, Night, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.751, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Morning, Zoos

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Husband, Heart, Men

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• I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.

  Portia de Rossi

  Order, Practice, People

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

  Michael Scott

  Core

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• You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Needs, Never Let Me Go, Remember

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Crazy, Fall, Crazy Things

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  Patrick Marber

  Trying, World, Currency

  Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

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• Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

  Tom Robbins

  Crush, Simple, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.81, Bantam

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

  Alan Paton

  Stars, Journey, Play

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

  Melina Marchetta

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• So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Children, Kids

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Tyrants, Leader

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Country, Crazy

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• You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Revenge, Soul, Black

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.931, Dell

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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Suicide, Thinking

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• A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

  Judith McNaught

  Soul, Insult, Affront

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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