{"quotes":[{"text":"There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.","author":"David Hewson","tags":["lies","lying-to-ourselves","truth"],"id":7474,"author_id":"David+Hewson"},{"text":"Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.","author":"Anthony Marais","tags":["lying-to-ourselves","writers"],"id":15007,"author_id":"Anthony+Marais"},{"text":"Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["lies","lying","lying-to-ourselves","unpleasant-truth"],"id":26371,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["accept-the-truth","aphorism","aphoristically","believe","honest","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity-relationship","impolite","impoliteness","lying","lying-to-ourselves","lying-to-you","lying-to-yourself","person","personal-development","personal-responsibility","quote","saying","such","such-a-man","telling-the-truth","truth","truthfulness"],"id":37373,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["false-belief","lying-to-ourselves","pity","reality","suffering"],"id":116539,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["a-lie","an-ideal","aphorism","become","becomes","hundred","hundred-times","ideal-word","lie","lying","lying-games","lying-to-ourselves","quote","repeat","telling-the-truth","truth"],"id":122690,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.","author":"Anthony Marais","tags":["honesty","literature","lying-to-ourselves"],"id":131039,"author_id":"Anthony+Marais"},{"text":"...The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric).","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["lying","lying-to-ourselves","lying-truth","power","power-of-words","trust","truth"],"id":131065,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.","author":"Donald L. Hicks","tags":["lies","lying","lying-to-ourselves"],"id":151969,"author_id":"Donald+L.+Hicks"},{"text":"Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","believing-one-s-own-lies","compulsive-liar","compulsive-lying","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","lies-we-tell-ourselves","lying","lying-to-ourselves","lying-to-yourself","pathological-liar","self-deception","trump"],"id":154263,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}