A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Your truths are worse than your lies.
Nothing in this book is true.
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
The universe is a put-up job.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
