Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are al...
Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.
I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
If we talk Lies, we have to tell another set of lies to cover the first lie! And most of the time we forget what we told the first time ! If we tell the truth, we don't have to remember anything.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
The average person tells a few white lies.
It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to beli...
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.
Ask no questions, I tell no lies.
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
Little Bill Daggett: Now Ned, them whores are going to tell different lies than you. And when their lies ain't the same as your lies... Well, I ain't gonna hurt no woman. But I'm gonna hurt you. And not gentle like before... but bad.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...
[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
I don't like to tell lies.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it
...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.
