Chuck Klosterman  - Quotes

 Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.  

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Sandra Bullock  - Quotes

 After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied too many times. 

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Roman Payne  - Quotes

 Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still. 

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Husbands and Wives  - Quotes

 Gabe:
What happened after the honeymoon? Did desire grow or did familiarity make partners want other lovers? Was the notion of ever-deepening romance a myth along with simultaneous orgasm? The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced one was when they were granted their divorce. Maybe in the end, the idea was not to expect too much out of life.
 

James Patterson  - Quotes

 If you are a dreamer, come in

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer,

If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire

For we have some flax-golden tales to spin

Come in!

Come in!
 

Tags: dreamer   hoper   liar   prayer   wisher     
Julian Barnes  - Quotes

 The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.  

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O. Henry  - Quotes

 All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best 

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George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 ...the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.... 

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John Steinbeck  - Quotes

 Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths. 

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Kim Harrison  - Quotes

 But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al 

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear. 

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Shel Silverstein  - Quotes

 If you are a dreamer come in

If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar

A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer

If youre a pretender com sit by my fire

For we have some flax golden tales to spin

Come in!

Come in!
 

Tags: dreamer   imagination   liar   poetry   wisher   wishes     
Sherman Alexie  - Quotes

 He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful. 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. 

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Mary Karr  - Quotes

 Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild... 

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W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Evil is unspectacular and always human,

And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....
 

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Leo Tolstoy  - Quotes

 Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! 

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Jodi Picoult  - Quotes

 Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through. 

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Margaret Mitchell  - Quotes

 The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Old liars

hold lies.
 

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