"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
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"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
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"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"
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"As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were."
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"You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear."
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"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk."
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"Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me."
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"Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles."
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"A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!"
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"The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial."
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"My only hope lies in my despair."
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"There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did."
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"The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars."
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"GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are."
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
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"Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth."
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"Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies."
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"Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation."
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"I see before me the gladiator lie."
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