"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."
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"Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else."
"We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
"If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together."
"Lie to me. Just to console my soul."
"If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence."
"Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature."
"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."
"I never lie,"I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
"I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life."
"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
"Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again."
"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood."
"I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked."
"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."
"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."