Jennifer Egan Quotes

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Advertising is legalized lying.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.