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Lying Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to…
- True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe…
- Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer…
- The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
- Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside…
- Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to…
- There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
- We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past…
- In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence…
- Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
- The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in…
- Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
- The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look…
- Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you…
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius