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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. — Tayari Jones

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off. — Dan Wells

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you — Dermot Healy

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. — Ralph Ellison

People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it. — Ian Caldwell

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie. — Alexandra Bracken

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The price of every lie is that the truth will always come out. — Jessica Khoury

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true — Lady Gaga

Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth. — Maria Vargas Llosa

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. — Gertrude Atherton

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. — Cheryl Strayed

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. — Marcus Aurelius

The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. — Gao Xingjian

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. — Paul Auster

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. — Seanan McGuire

One man's truth is another man's lie. — Louise Phillips

A lie has many colours,
while white is the only faithful colour of truth. — Munia Khan

Yet, if he would not lie, what could he write but truth? — George R R Martin

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away ... — Agatha Christie

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies. — Santosh Kalwar

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

One lie can tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie... — Deyth Banger

There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth. — Husam Wafaei

For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, I am the truth. — Augustine Of Hippo

He who does not lie does not know what truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else. — Meg Rosoff

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it. — T. B. Joshua

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie. — Rihanna

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters. — Veronica Roth

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal

I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. — Terry Pratchett

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn — Abbi Glines

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. — David Levithan

Animals and children tell the truth they never lie,
Which one is more human,
There's a thought now you decide — Savage Garden

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. — Patrick Marber

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth — Leah Wilson

In the interests of Truth, I would lie. — Frances Hardinge

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. — Robert Browning

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth. — Jack Nicholson

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain. — Bill Cosby

In my eyes you're perfect, until you lie to me. Betraying my trust is something I can forgive, but never forget. Stay perfect. — D.C. Akers

All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie. — R.J. Rushdoony

A lie believed to be truth will be lived is if it is true — Roger House

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity. — Michael R. Fletcher

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. — Robin Hobb

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue. — Brent Weeks

Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve. — Anthony Liccione

The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth. — Jeanne Watatsuki Houston

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie. — Chloe Grace Moretz

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? — Saurabh Sharma

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. — Stephen King

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. — Cortney S. Warren

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow. — Hugh Prather

The only truth that matters, is the truth within. For without that truth can be made a lie. — Sarah Pussell

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. — Henry Ward Beecher

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. — Amy Tan

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. — Wright Morris

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David

Couldn't tell if the truth looked like a lie, or a lie the truth. — Marie Rutkoski

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. — Twyla Tharp

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. — Ken Gire

Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie. — David Wishengrad

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. — Robin Williams

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily. — Rachel Hartman

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. — P.D. Ouspensky

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth? — Nikki Rowe

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true. — Cathy Burnham Martin

There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them. — Rick Yancey

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies — Fred Munoz

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth? — Stephenie Meyer

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly. — Jack London

That we are both right. One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. — Michael Sullivan

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth. — Edward De Bono

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. — Aminatta Forna

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp

Don't lie!' 'Tell the truth!' are words which we must never say to another person in so far as we consider him our equal. — Milan Kundera

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. — Jacqueline Carey

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. — Robert Breault

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie. — James Branch Cabell

Eyes are brave. They speak the truth when the lips lie. — Sabine Shah

I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie. — Jeff Shear

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. — Mario Puzo

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth? — Andrzej Sapkowski

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon