lies

We__e not broken. We__e not in the wrong bodies. We__e not inadequate. We__e not lesser. We__e not unwanted. We__e not fraudulent. We__e not undesirable. That__ all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases__oublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'__hat he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own mind there was an inextricable connection between language and truth, a conviction that by using plain and unambiguous words one could forbid oneself the comfort of certain falsehoods and delusions. Every time you hear a piece of psychobabble or propaganda_'people's princess,' say, or 'collateral damage,' or 'peace initiative'__t is good to have a well-thumbed collection of his essays nearby. His main enemy in discourse was euphemism, just as his main enemy in practice was the abuse of power, and (more important) the slavish willingness of people to submit to it.

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.

You cannot believe everything you hear

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.