Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Saul Bellow
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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 Saul Bellow
  1. It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

  2. A man is only as good as what he loves.

  3. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

  4. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

  5. The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

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