All Quotes By Tag: Lies

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

“Isn’t strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?”

“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”

“Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”

“You know there’s no such thing as a complete lie. There’s always some truth in there.”

“,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That’s just what best friends do.”

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

“That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.”

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”

“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.”