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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters. — Anne Ursu

Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a boy telling beautiful lies? — Alice Sebold

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth. — Orson Scott Card

I just kept telling myself I didn't want you, but we said no lies, and I think that includes lying to myself. How about you? — C.D. Reiss

The world was full of lies. And people keep telling us we need them, all in the name of peace. But the peace we got was poison. — Steven Erikson

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. — Pietro Aretino

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. — Thomas Jefferson

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

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody. — Satchel Paige

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later. — Nicholas Haslam

What is it they say about telling lies? You have to remember every detail, and sooner or later you get caught. — Adrian R. Magnuson

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. — E.W. Howe

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. — Holly Black

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

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. — Robert Kennedy

Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit. — Marilyn Celeste Morris

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Was I a secret not worth sharing
Or
Was I a fact not worth telling? — Dawn Lanuza

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter

You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies.. — Javan

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. — Jenna Alatari

So much of being a woman is telling lies — Candace Bushnell

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie. — Amit Kalantri

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. — Anton Chekhov

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean De La Bruyere

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth. — Isaac Asimov

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle.

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

He kept telling me his affair was over, but I kept catching him in lies. He wouldn't shake this woman, and I simply could not trust him anymore. — Brandi Glanville

Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it. — Yuval Noah Harari

A lie, when believed, became the truth. — Michelle M. Pillow

Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember. — William Cranch Bond

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. — Denis Johnson

For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth. — Elizabeth Wein

People loved their politicians looking good. Beauty was a must when telling lies. — Cameron Jace

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery. — Jamison Green

The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them. — Anne Ursu

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

Telling lies and being deceitful takes so much more energy than being honest and sincere. — Steven Aitchison

Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth. — Stephen Grey

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. — Franz Kafka

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. — Marissa Meyer

Art is lies that tell the truth. — Pablo Picasso

If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie. — Auliq Ice

The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth. — Deacon Jones

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. — Franz Kafka

Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. — Gabrielle Zevin

The kiss has started something bigger between us, and the lies I'm telling Stirling will only get worse from here on in. — K.C. Finn

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing. — Will Bly

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity. — Amit Ray

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

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies. — Val Edward Simone

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

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. — R.M. Ford

Myths are lies that tell the truth. — Phil Cousineau

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. — Helen Rowland

To be straight means to be loyal to the truth. — Auliq Ice

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

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. — Lillian Hellman

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. — Tom Holt

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now. — Paul O'Neill

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans. — Raheel Farooq

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? — Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies. — Khaled Hosseini

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. — Bell Hooks

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

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. — Jane Fonda

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

When the hate don't work , they start telling lies. — Werley Nortreus

Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. — Brock Clarke

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

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare

Telling lies does not work in advertising. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Lies so convincingly you'd swear they were telling the — Abigail Strom

I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat. — Hannah Brencher

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. — George Orwell

(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you. — Christopher Hitchens

Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them. — Nick Land

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon