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• When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Deception, Ability

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.252, Bantam

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• The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Poetry, Speak

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• Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

  Anderson Cooper

  Lying, Littles, Fool

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• As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Children, Lying

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

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• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Atheist, Artist, Telling The Truth

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.9, Penguin

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• I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

  John Lydon

  Problem, Internet, Majors

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Memories, Writing, Actors

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• The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

  Billy Sunday

  Cheer, Lying, Promise

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Religious, War, Struggle

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Dragons, Thieves

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

  John Irving

  Men, Said

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

  Deb Caletti

  Strong, Magic, Looks

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Textbooks

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• No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

  Sara Shepard

  Lying, Believe, Telling The Truth

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• It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Love You, God Love

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Skills, Two, World

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• Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Generosity, Wicked

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• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  D. A. Carson

  Hate, Wrath, Faces

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• In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Lying, Responsibility

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• A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Honest, Convinced

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• I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

  Ben Bailey

  Funny, Believe, Trying

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• I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

  Rob Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Hate

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

  Sophocles

  Lying, Reflection, Men

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• If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Lying, May, Dupes

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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