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It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means.""Mm. Those are some of the best lies. — Brandon Sanderson
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.
— Judith Perelman Rossner
Half of tradition is a lie.
— Stephen Crane
I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.
— Marina And The Diamonds
It's a lie to feel any war is far away.
— Michelle Detorie
The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.
— Seanan McGuire
Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
— John Steinbeck
Nothing that I say in my music is a lie.
— Shy Glizzy
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
— Janette Rallison
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
— Patrick DeWitt
I wanted to lie in bed with her at night, and bemoan the ordeal of planning a wedding. I wanted it all.
— Christina Lauren
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.
— William Blake
It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.
— Marisha Pessl
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.
— Caitlin Doughty
What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?
— Saurabh Sharma
Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
— Marcel Proust
Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.
— Derek Jeter
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
— Jonathan Swift
What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?
— Nikki Rowe
It felt uncomfortable to lie to someone who was being kind. She hadn't known a lie could have a physical weight.
— Anne Bishop
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
— Jacqueline Carey
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
— Patrick Kavanagh
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
— Alexander Pope
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.
— Robert Breault
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
— Stephen Leacock
It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one.
— Brent Weeks
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
— Mitch Albom
I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.
— Gabrielle Dennis
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
— Elie Wiesel
What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?
— Andrzej Sapkowski
These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.
— James Baldwin
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?
— Donna Leon
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.
— Tionne Watkins
Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about ... That always worries me!
— Charles M. Schulz
Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie.
— David Wishengrad
A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.
— Stephen Fry
TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off
— Sylvia Plath
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
— Twyla Tharp
This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
— R.C. Sproul
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
— Kenneth Logan
It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.
— Brady Udall
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
— Rachel Hartman
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
— P.D. Ouspensky
A lie is still a lieeven if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon
The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it
— Michael J. Jackson
Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
— Joseph Goebbels
Couldn't tell if the truth looked like a lie, or a lie the truth.
— Marie Rutkoski
The only truth that matters, is the truth within. For without that truth can be made a lie.
— Sarah Pussell
I'm just a lie waiting to happen.
— Walter Mosley
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
— L. Ron Hubbard
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
— Christine Feehan
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
You cannot grasp a lie with your hand,but it can destroy more than an axe. — Matshona Dhliwayo
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.
— Cecelia Ahern
Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.
— Lawrence Durrell
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
— Robert J. Flaherty
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?-Frizz mizuno — Scott Westerfeld
Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.
— Victoria Aveyard
