"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.59, Vintage

Sissela Bok

#Liars Quotes #Lying Quotes #Deception Quotes

“I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.”
“The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.”
“Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.”
“In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.”
“Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.”

Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”
“When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.”
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

Source : 1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

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