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Lying Quotes by Patrick Ness
- People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter…
- I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing,…
- Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
- Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing…
- Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
- I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling…
- Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
- We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
More Lying Quotes
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- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
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- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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