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• What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  Cheryl Strayed

  What If, Done, No Excuses

  "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail". Book by Cheryl Strayed, March 20, 2012.

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• But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.

  Cliff Curtis

  Fun, Business, Thinking

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• The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.

  Billy Sunday

  Cheer, Adversity, Worst Enemy

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Plato, Yesterday

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!

  T. D. Jakes

  Devil

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• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  Edmund Burke

  Spring, Lying, Falsehood

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

  Helen McCloy

  Dream, Lying, Personality

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• I don't debate with liars.

  Evo Morales

  Lying, Debate

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• His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

  Etgar Keret

  Angel, Wings, Body

  Etgar Keret (2015). “The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories”, p.15, Penguin

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Mean, Eye

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Hate, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.204, Beacon Press

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• they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

  Esther Forbes

  Lying, Men, Pigs

  ESTHER FORBES (1954). “Rainbow on the Road”

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• A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

  Anne Roiphe

  Two, Secret, Landscape

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• Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

  Ben Salmon

  Father, War, Assuming

  "Ben Salmon On War". Book by Ben Salmon, pp. 86 - 87, "Personal critique of just war doctrine", 1921.

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• You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Only the liar knows he's lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Knows

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• What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

  Joanne Harris

  Fiction

  "Blueeyedboy". Book by Joanne Harris, 2010.

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• There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

  Tina Fey

  Food, Doe, Lobster

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• And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Men, Scared

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pretending, Said, Sincerely

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1052, Macmillan

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• That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

  Ally Carter

  Sound, Fool, Sometimes

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

  Gregg Olsen

  Wall, Lying, Stories

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• Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

  Philip Pullman

  Powerful, Lying, Mean

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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