#lies

Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. ("Another Word: Plausibility and Truth ↗

— Daniel Abraham

#democracy-gone-wrong #lies #truth #truth-and-lies #truth-inspirational

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#lying #truth #love

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #church #family #friendships #honesty

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man." "Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#clever #count-olaf #funny-humor #intelligent #lemony-snicket

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#lies #life #love #measure #truth

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bullying #life

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#photography #men

You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal was never an option. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#my-love-lies-bleeding #life

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

— Radiohead

#life #radiohead #television #truth #life

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #facts #lies #life #receptive