Lying Quotes - Page 36

• The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Light, Overcast

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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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• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  Paul Klee

  Angel, One Day, Sides

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• She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Hands, White

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.153, Carcanet

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• Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

  Voltaire

  Art

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• What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Doe, Hiding

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• In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

  Dean Koontz

  Commitment, Age, Culture

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• So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Guy, Answers

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• For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Death, Dream

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “The Raven and Other Favorite Poems”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

  Sara Teasdale

  Flower, Gay, Blow

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.

  Shel Silverstein

  Moving, Lions, Want

  Shel Silverstein (1963). “Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back”

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Greatest Fear, Anticipation, Our Greatest Fear

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• One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

  Kathryn Lasky

  Truth Is, Creatures

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• I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Littles

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sleep, Cutting, Red

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1444, Delphi Classics

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• If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

  Daniel Quinn

  Differences, Might, Found

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.28, Bantam

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• In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Suicide, Heart, Doctors

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• Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

  Arthur Phillips

  Love Is, Stories, Ever After

  Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.270, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

  Nalini Singh

  Stupid, Way, Enough

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Letting Go, Silly, Math

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Ideas, Interesting

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• don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doe, Looks, Matter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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