Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
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George R.r. Martin
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
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Vladimir Nabokov
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
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Woody Allen
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
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William Blake
More Quotes By Stephen Graham Jones
Claire.It was the last candle left within the Indian Agent. The last glimmer. He curled himself around it to keep it alive, and when the storm inhaled he studied his right hand, could feel her beside him in the carriage that night and, as if...
Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.
He stood over her for as long as he could endure the cold, long enough for the boy tending the dead to pass twice on fingertips and toes. The boy's self-appointed mission was to keep all of their eyes closed, the dead. Otherwise he couldn't...
. what I told Malory happened next is that when he looked over at her then it was like he'd been waiting a hundred years to see her, and this crazy ass Ledfeather girl all the way from Standing Rock, she looked off after the...
I'm all right, " I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.
