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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

Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail. — Shaun Tan

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. — Keith Henson

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. — Rick Pitino

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. — H.L. Mencken

Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie. — Glenda Bailey-Mershon

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? — Robert Redford

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. — Paulo Coelho

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

Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie. — William Shakespeare

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose. — George Harrison

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this
two things: I crave truth. And I lie. — Tana French

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor — James Grady

What I know?
I know that you lie too often + every strugle or move you have made is telling a lot of about you. — Deyth Banger

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie. — Auliq Ice

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. — Ally Carter

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical. — Mango Wodzak

He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie. — Luanne Rice

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth. — Harry S. Truman

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. — Robert Breault

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. — Eric Carr

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. — Gautama Buddha

I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it. — Jack Heffron

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well. — Saki

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. — Nadeem Aslam

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. — Margot Livesey

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. — Ken Livingstone

Half the truth is often a whole lie. — Frank Sonnenberg

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

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

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

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

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal. — Ljupka Cvetanova

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Besides, is it really a lie when the person you're telling it to knows you aren't being truthful in the first place? — Paige Shelton

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. — Shakira

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. — Jonathan Maberry

Only once can I say "I'm dying" without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me. — Edouard Leve

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power. — Neal Shusterman

telling a Lie meant no less than totally altering the universe. This — Terry Pratchett

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Defend the truth with all you might so that the people of the future do not learn a lie. — Auliq Ice

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. — Samuel Johnson

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. — Elizabeth Bowen

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth
about everything. That will teach them — Seth Adam Brown

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie. — Thornton Wilder