"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."

Deception, Lies, Truth, Manipulation

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"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."

David Levithan, American Author

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"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Deception, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

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"Strength to your arm, then."

Motivation

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

Humor

"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

Character

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

Courage

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

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"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

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"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea."

"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."

"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."

"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."

"Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head."

"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

"When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows."

"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."

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"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."

"In this world the weak are the victims of the strong."

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."