Top 100 Lies You Tell Quotes

#1. Camille's tear-streaked face flashed for a moment with triumph. "I knew it," she said. "Whatever else you might say, whatever lies you tell, you hate our kind. Don't you?

Cassandra Clare

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#2. If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Marina And The Diamonds

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#3. Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

Gautama Buddha

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#4. We can tell you many things, but none are certain and many are lies.

Ginn Hale

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#5. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#6. I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

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#7. a true relantionship is when you can tell each other anything & everything no secrey no lies...

The Gentle Author

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#8. If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

Chauncey Depew

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#9. Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Catherynne M Valente

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#10. Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie - they see nothing wrong with it.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#11. Oh, I can't talk to you the way I've wanted to; I've been tellin' lies but I'll tell you the truth.
Darling, I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving. You know I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving tonight.

Richard Edwards

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#12. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.

Tarryn Fisher

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#13. Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

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#14. Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

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#15. It's just, sometimes lies look so much like the truth. And when you can't tell between the two, how do you know which one will make you happy? Maybe the lie will make you happier. And if you're happier with the lie, would you really want to know the truth?

Cindi Madsen

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#16. I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth.

Mary Karr

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#17. Mists may blur vision,
Doubts to lies are heavy mists,
Truth clears for all ways."
~ Angelica Hopes, Haiku
an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

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#18. It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

Robert James Waller

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#19. Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.

Mia Asher

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#20. They'll call you a liar, if the truth you tell is yours.

Marty Rubin

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#21. I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

Jennifer Beals

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#22. But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

C.S. Lewis

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#23. He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

Davis Grubb

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#24. When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Jodi Picoult

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#25. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

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#26. The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Shannon L. Alder

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#27. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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#28. Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.

Rene Denfeld

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#29. Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

Louise Fitzhugh

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#30. In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Jodi Picoult

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#31. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

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#32. Never tell the same lie twice. Lies have to be fresh, constantly changing. You cheat on your spouse, come up with a new excuse every time you're home late. Don't, and you get eaten.

Nicholas Lamar Soutter

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#33. Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.

John Adams

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#34. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

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#35. If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.

Thea_zara

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#36. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.

David Ogilvy

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#37. To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

Val Edward Simone

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#38. Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Alan Moore

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#39. Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.

Svetlana Alexievich

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#40. I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

Mark Haddon

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#41. Wait for me. Be strong, and I'll be strong too. I'll fight my way out of whatever they've got in store.
I won't forget you. I won't ever turn my back on you, no matter what lies I have to tell them. Our center will hold.

Richelle Mead

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#42. To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man, and tell him lies ... Edward

Kage Baker

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#43. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.

Shannon L. Alder

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#44. Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods ... in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. And I heard His whisper, You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give someone hope.

Nikki Rosen

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#45. Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

Abhijit Naskar

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#46. You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

Victor Hugo

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#47. The way you treat me baby
Cheat and tell me lies
I guess I shouldn't care at all
But still I sympathize
'cause you got heart trouble
Coming on
Yeah you got heart trouble coming on
Well you think that you don't need me baby
But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Martina Mcbride

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#48. It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Justin Cronin

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#49. Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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#50. Lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

Joe Abercrombie

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#51. So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

Bobby Vee

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#52. It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.

Astrid Yrigollen

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#53. At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Pete Postlethwaite

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#54. You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Tom Robbins

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#55. I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

Haruki Murakami

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#56. Funny isn't it?" said Sebastian. "The lies good people tell. He'll probably make you eggs every day for the rest of your life now, and you'll choke them down because you can't tell him you don't like them."
Clary thought of the Seelie Queen. "Love makes liars of us all?

Cassandra Clare

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#57. Lord love you," Ms. Eulalie said, "but you tell lies like Ms. Franny sings: hard to listen to and even harder to believe.

Kristin Walker

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#58. Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

Aleister Crowley

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#59. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of no creature except himself.

George Orwell

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#60. ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.

The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.

Carla Buckley

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#61. If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

Jim Crace

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#62. The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

Edward Burns

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#63. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Suze Orman

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#64. But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Dick Francis

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#65. It's amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you're desperate enough.

Cat Clarke

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#66. I hope you choke on your lies before you tell them to someone else.

Mohamed Ghazi

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#67. Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies," the red-headed Ruth replied. "You'll know soon enough." Late

E. Nesbit

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#68. Of course, but you humans have always been adept at deluding yourselves. You'll tell any number of outrageous lies in order to believe what you want, what you can.

R.R. Virdi

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#69. Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

Tony Gaskins

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#70. I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not.

Angel Rosa

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#71. Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Anita Shreve

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#72. The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Michael A. Hess

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#73. People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Gordon Strachan

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#74. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

Tennessee Williams

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#75. Here lies the girl whose only crutch
Was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do
I'm gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two.

The Band Perry

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#76. That's stupid. Everyone lies."
"Yeah, well, it's a waste of time. The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. Believe me: it's easier to just be honest.

Katie Klein

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#77. I wasn't finished with you, Pru," he said softly. "I had plans."
Oh boy. "Maybe I had plans, too."
"Yeah?" Closing the gap between them, one of his hands went to her hip, the other slid up her back to anchor her to him. "Tell me. Tell me slowly and in great detail.

Jill Shalvis

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#78. Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

George Sand

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#79. On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

Isabel Fonseca

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#80. You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

Elton John

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#81. It was our story, played out on the open highway chasing sunsets. It wasn't an easy story to tell you. It was a story of kisses, lust, passion, youth, mistakes, lies, hiding, stupidity, judging, but most of all, love.

Shey Stahl

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#82. Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

David Gaider

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#83. Whatever else you might say, whatever lies you tell, you hate our kind.

Cassandra Clare

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#84. As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

Robert Breault

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#85. Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your character will tell your side without any words spoken. Do your best to vibrate high even in the midst of a shit storm.

Sanjo Jendayi

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#86. The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

Holly Black

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#87. Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

Washington Allston

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#88. What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams, all beautiful mysteries, all lies? What is truth, can you tell me that? You see, we only advanced by way of symbols, and we change the symbols as we progress.

Knut Hamsun

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#89. You can't have a "debate" with people who constantly tell crazy lies. Pretending you can only legitimates their crazy lies.

Adam Kotsko

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#90. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

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#91. I love it when people tell me you can't. For the very moment they say you can't, they challenge the "I can" that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done.

Bien Sufficient

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#92. Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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#93. Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

David Ogilvy

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#94. You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did.

Ruth Hanna Sachs

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#95. When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.

Frank Sonnenberg

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#96. The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

Bryant McGill

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#97. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#98. Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

Jack Thanatos

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#99. It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

Leslie Vernick

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#100. You ask me why I dwell
amidst these jade-green hills?
I smile. No words can tell
the stillness in my heart.
Peach blossoms drift streamwater
away deep in mystery.
I live in the other world
one that lies beyond the human.

Li Bai

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