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 William Boyd
Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier...
A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet...
Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)
Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?
