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“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.”

Way Feels Facts Moving Lying Honest Events Perspective Mere Brands Novelists

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.”

Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage

“The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.”

People Facts Lying Common Common Sense Decent

Author:Howard Zinn

“The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.”

Ifs Facts Lying Sides Virtue Ready Conservative Radical Radicalism

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.”

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Book:The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

“To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.”

Facts Truth Lying Can Do Party Havens Late Claims Harm

Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004

“Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”

Believe Wells Important Facts Lying Found Truth Is Mountain Regard Depth Valleys Superficial Mountain Top

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)