Book Quote by William S. Burroughs

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false…

— George Eliot

“Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with identical ease. But since truths were carved by the…

— R. Scott Bakker

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth…

— DH Lawrence

“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath the surface, turns to…

— Baltasar Gracián

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself…

— Philip K. Dick

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.”

— Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

“The moral aspect was merely a concomitant, a coverall for some deeper, almost forgotten purpose. That histoire should be story, lie and history all…

— Henry Miller

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

— Andre Malraux

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous