Lying Quotes - Page 39

• Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

  Mira Grant

  Needs, Alive, Sometimes

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. He knew pain.

  James Jones

  Pain, Moving, Hands

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• I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

  David Nicholls

  Adventure, Soul, Trying

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

  Franz Kafka

  Principles, Melancholy, Accepting

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

  Albert Camus

  Hypocrisy, Too Much

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• Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  Michael Palin

  Government, Holy Grail, Books And Movies

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Believe, Destiny

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

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• I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.

  Jim C. Hines

  Book, Reading, Kids

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• What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

  Richard Dawkins

  Heart, Technology, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

  David Levithan

  Hate, Cutting, Hair

  "Fictional character: Kat Stratford". "10 Things I Hate About You", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eyelashes, Laughing, Red

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2011). “Demon's Surrender”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hurt, Real, Long

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• Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

  Brandon Mull

  Deceit, Sometimes, Believable

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

  Glen Duncan

  Definitions, Unbearable, Killing Yourself

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• The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspiring, Moving, Differences

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

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• I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.

  Ann Aguirre

  News, Ready, True Ones

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.40, Penguin

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• I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

  Robin Hobb

  Horse, Past, Snow

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• there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Memories, Past, Way

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

  Wendell Berry

  Rivers, Ducks, Looks

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.87, Counterpoint Press

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• Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Alive, Lions, Gazelles

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.103, Dell

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• I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

  Mary McCarthy

  Reality, Differences, Vision

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• Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

  George R. R. Martin

  Son, Goats, Likes

  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.509, Bantam

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• Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

  John Green

  Done, Baths, Policy

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.13, Penguin

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• Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reality, Way

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.214, Random House

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• I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Would Be, Imagine, Small Talk

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