#deception

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #life #life

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#liars #self-deception #deception

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#lying #deception

Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones. ↗

— Scott B. Pruden

#humorous-quotes #immaculate-deception #satire #science-fiction #science-fiction-comedy

It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows…even if that one is you. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#love #love-hurts #love

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. ↗

— Yiyun Li

#dead #death #deception #falsehoods #lies

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready." "You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage