Able Quote by Alice Munro Download Open image “Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?” — Alice Munro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Lying People Surprise
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I don't understand how a person how a person can tell so many lies and never feel bad about it — Hemant Smarty Copy Share Image
For so quite a few people, telling lies is as simple and normal as waking up every morning for daily routine. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
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What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
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