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Tag Name "Lying" (6801)

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When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.
Smoky Joe Wood
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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Ned Rorem
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Well then, Roen said briskly, are you sleeping? Yes. Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating? No, Brigan said gravely. I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south. Gracious, Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. Have an apple, dear.
Kristin Cashore
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
George Santayana
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I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.
Truman Capote
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
Truman Capote
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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
Karl Kraus
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To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies
Tuomas Holopainen
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
Karl Barth
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Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies
Tupac Shakur
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It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
Philip Roth
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For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?
Tupac Shakur
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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
Annie Dillard
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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
Annie Dillard
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Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.
Tupac Shakur
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.
Annie Besant
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
Twyla Tharp
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Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
Annie Besant
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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
Anne Truitt
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