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Lie Quotes
"I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own."
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"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
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"A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism."
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"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
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"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."
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"My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two."
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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"Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit."
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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
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"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."
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"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
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"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
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"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments."
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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
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"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
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"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished."
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
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"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
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"The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people."
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"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."
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"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech."
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"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."
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