#lies

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

"The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie."

"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."

"Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time."

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."

"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."

"I’m more of a journalist than anyone in the mainstream media, and I write fiction. More than fiction, I write absurd nonsense surrealism, and my work has more truth."

"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."

"If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows."

"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."

"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."

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

"Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth."

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

"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."