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• I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

  James Packer

  May, Revealing, Believer

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• There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Dream, Hero, Mirrors

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• All Marketers are liars tell stories.

  Seth Godin

  Stories, Marketers

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• We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

  Jane Porter

  Lying, Men, Needs

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Nature, Hands, House

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• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Horace

  Art, Lying, Book

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• The perjurer's mother told white lies.

  Austin O'Malley

  Mother, Lying, White

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• Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

  Charlie Parker

  Years, Play, Ideas

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It". Book edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379, 1955.

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• I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Lying, Finals, Never Lie

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Pride, Men

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• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Helping, Spots

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

  Leona Helmsley

  Children, Lying, Thieves

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Writing, Boys

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• Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Eyelashes, Drug

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Taken, Writing, Successful

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Life, Running, Numbers

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, World, Lord

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [148]

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• Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Biscuits, Professors

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• "So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Lying, Mean

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Dumb, Bob

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• To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Lying, Writing, Men

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• I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.

  Jack Heffron

  Lying, Believe, Secret

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.100, Writer's Digest Books

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• A good liar must have a good memory.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Good Memories, Good Liar

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Roving, Lawyer

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.126, 谷月社

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• I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. He's a 21-year-old kid trying to be a man and I love him. I really do

  Manti Te'o

  Couple, Kids, I Love Him

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