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  • #1
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    George Carlin

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    Benjamin Disraeli

  • #4
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Alfred Tennyson
    “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #9
    Adrienne Rich
    “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
    Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying

  • #10
    “So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!”
    Eddie Izzard

  • #11
    Frans Kellendonk
    “We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.”
    Frans Kellendonk, Het Complete Werk

  • #12
    Lysander Spooner
    “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
    Lysander Spooner

  • #13
    C.S. Lewis
    “and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #14
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders & The Fisher of Men

  • #15
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #16
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
    Benjamin Disraeli

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “Datta, dayadhvam, damyata
    (Give, sympathize, control)”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems



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