2,241 Quotes About Lies

  • Author James Joyce
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    And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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  • Author Anica Mrose Rissi
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    I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points. Lies are more solid, sometimes they feel more real.

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  • Author Anica Mrose Rissi
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    But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once.

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  • Author T.J. Klune
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    Someone told me once that the light we see from the stars is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we'd never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.

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  • Author Jonathan Sims
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    Doesn’t even need to tell you any lies – just waits for the lies you tell yourself.

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  • Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

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