Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
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Always live your life with your biography in mind.
MARISHA PESSL They say that there is "kernel of truth I every stereotype" But fools ignore the truth to gain accep...
TROY J. GAINEY In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house...
MARISHA PESSL Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying.
"Naturally, it won'...
MARISHA PESSL Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
MARISHA PESSL No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure!...
MARISHA PESSL I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a react...
MARISHA PESSL Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occ...
MARISHA PESSL It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.
MARISHA PESSL A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
MARISHA PESSL If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the cou...
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MARISHA PESSL If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it a...
MARISHA PESSL They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a ...
MARISHA PESSL Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
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MARISHA PESSL ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Da...
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MARISHA PESSL Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows u...
MARISHA PESSL In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
WILLIE BROWN Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. STONE Inside every truth are many lies & inside every lie are some truths.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
ALAN DUNDES The price of every lie is that the truth will always come out.
JESSICA KHOURY Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tre...
EMILY DICKINSON There's truth I every word, and a lie in every statement. But in everything ever written, there's a ...
DANIELLE MARAIS But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie Imagine every eye beholds their blame
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
BO BENNETT In the lie of truth lies the truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - w...
TOM VILSACK A partial truth, is half of a lie...
PHILIP T. M. Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll ge...
ORVILLE REDENBACHER By believing a lie you make the lie a truth for you.
JAIME CONTRERAS Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY “The perfect lie must have a pinch of truth.”
KEGGAH CORNER Life's irony;The truth lovehate the lie because, the lie makes it exist & also makes it temporarily ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The truth lovehates the lie because,the lie makes it exist & also makes it to temporari...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You don't need huge, elaborate centerpieces on every table.
DIANE FORDEN The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
MICHAEL SCOTT When I harvest my life right up to the edges, I have collected every last kernel of blessing.
ERIN M. STRAZA A half truth is a whole lie.
YIDDISH PROVERB A half-truth is a whole lie
YIDDISH PROVERB A half-truth is a whole lie.
YIDDISH PROVERB to seek the truth, you
must lie to a liar,
& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru...
DAVID J. MARTINEZ Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER A lie told often enough becomes truth.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) A lie travels farther than the truth.
IRISH PROVERB Truth never was indebted to a lie.
EDWARD YOUNG A lie told often enough becomes truth
VLADIMIR LENIN The best lies were always mixed with truth.
SARAH J. MAAS For every truth,there are ten lies.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...
STEPHEN FRY Lie has thousand faces. Truth has only one face.
KOWSALAPATHY When lie is being exhibited & the truth looks elsewhere, it means it has sold it'd birthright.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let all the truth be told,but just one lie well executed can disorganize it,albeit temporarily.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lie is the original impersonator,for it impersonates the truth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) [I] lie like the truth.
WILLEM DAFOE Lie is an ambassador of the truth,without pay.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lie can only prevail,if the truth decides to remain silent.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lie is illegal,but truth is legal.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The defense aroma present in the truth,makes it defensive in nature,but lie lacks the defense aroma,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a battle field between two unseen forces;The truth & The lie.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In the science world,the lies of today can become the truth of tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Truth is constant,but lie varies.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress,but become hippocrital ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Truth is constant,you never need to remember it,but lie is un-constant for you always need to rememb...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To live in truth is the foundation for progress & it is better than to temporarily dwell in a beauti...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What's the use of arguing with someone who finds it easy to lie and has no problem swearing they're ...
MOSTAFA BAKOUSH Ultimate truth is a cover story, underneath lies a LIE.
EPHDAN If I will not lie, you will not see the truth.
ALON CALINAO DY To be a liar, you need to know the truth.
WOHI PURANA The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
JOE BOB BRIGGS Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
TANYA HUFF Half a truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life is a lie, death is a truth
SIDDHARTH DUBEY San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a nove...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth wil...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Half the truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
EDGAR J. MOHN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
LENIN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
VLADIMIR LENIN Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.
KRISHNA SAGAR I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when ...
ERALDO BANOVAC Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
THOMAS MANN A hurtfull truth is better than a comforting lie
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose w...
MIRA GRANT Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
REMY DE GOURMONT The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
MARTIN TUPPER The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
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