#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."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."

"There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets."

"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick"

"Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."

"Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end."

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."

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

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."

"Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise."

"When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie."

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."

"If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people."