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Lying Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
- Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
- It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would…
- You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'…
More Lying Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- 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