"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."

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"Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then - and this is the important bit - do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Deception, Strategy, Violence, Irony

"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Deception, Truth, Regret, Power, Life

"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

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"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Deception, Lying, Self

"Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death."

Robert Jordan, American Author

Deception, Trust, Power, Death, Betrayal

"He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings."

Homer, Greek Poet

Deception, Truth, Ambiguity, Perception

"Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

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"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

Deception, Bargain, End, Parents

"And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Deception, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Lies make for pathetic allies."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Deception, Lies, Trust, Betrayal, Falsehood

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"This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job."

Literature

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

Thought

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Art

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

Fiction

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

Blame

"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."

Family

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

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"Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then - and this is the important bit - do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies."

"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."

"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings."

"Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship."

"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."

"And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

"Lies make for pathetic allies."

Explore more quotes by Susan Sontag

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."