Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.
Caroline KettlewellTag: deception lies lying public-image half-truths
Injured Soul
Fainted Eyes
Returning
from where?
Weary feet
Weak arms
Treading
toward where?
Struggled
in vain battles
Fighting
delusive enemies
Erred by
a deception
The ancient deception
Tag: deception soul fighting eyes battles injured delusive-enemies fainted struggled-in-vain the-ancient-deception treading weak-arms weary-feet
People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
Terry BrooksTag: life truth deception lies
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor VingeTag: pain deception manipulation terror
The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.
Lydia DavisTag: truth deception lie lying deceiving
allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyA lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.
Dennis SharpeTag: truth deception power lies
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
James RobertsonTag: truth deception stories trust storytelling
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
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