The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky
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  1. By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this --One of you is lying. - Dorothy Parker

  2. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. - Anne Rice

  3. At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving... - Thomas Hardy

  4. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. - J.d. Salinger

  5. ...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick - Jeanne Birdsall

More Quotes By Joseph Brodsky
  1. Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

  2. For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

  3. ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  4. ... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....

  5. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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