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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

~ Thomas Hardy

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And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

~ Alberto Moravia

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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

~ Sun Tzu

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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

~ Osamu Dazai

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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

~ Jim Butcher

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Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

~ Walter Scott

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People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

~ Zoë Marriott

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

~ Jane Austen

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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

~ Khaled Hosseini

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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

~ René Descartes

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

~ Demosthenes

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There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

~ George R.r. Martin

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A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

~ Charlotte Armstrong

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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

~ Imre Kertész

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A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

~ Dennis Sharpe

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When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

~ Greg Cox

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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

~ Umberto Eco

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Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

~ James Robertson

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An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

~ Djayawarman Alamprabu

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What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

~ Criss Jami

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When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

~ Yiyun Li

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A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

~ Max Frisch

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Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception –but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe that they are superior to others and that they have a purpose greater than just passing along their genes to the next generation. Individuals seem to need similar delusions – about who they are and why they do what they do. They need heroes, however fraudulent… Studies show that people are more likely to accept the opinion of a confident con man than the cautious view of someone who actually knows what he is talking about. And professionals who form overconfident opinions on the basis of incorrect readings of the facts are more likely to succeed than their more competent peers who display greater doubt.What’s more, deception works best, according to studies by psychologists, when the person doing the deceiving is fool enough to be deceived, too; that is, when he believes his own lies. That is why incompetent leaders – who are naïve enough to fall for their own guff – are such a danger to civilized life. If they are modern leaders, they must also delude themselves into thinking they know how to make the world a better place. Invariably, the answers they propose to problems are ones that bubble up from their own vanity, the essence of which is to make the rest of the world look just like them!

~ William Bonner

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When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

~ Oscar Wilde

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Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

~ Brent Weeks

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She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.

~ Grace Willows

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Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky. Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

~ Grace Willows

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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.

~ Grace Willows

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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.

~ Grace Willows

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Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.

~ Joshilyn Jackson

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Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!

~ T.f. Hodge

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Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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