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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told - told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.
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  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now {though I shall not cease envying him}. No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can … Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!
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  3. Laurie Halse Anderson _ Wintergirls

    And that's the problem. When you'realive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bonecage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybodyout.But it's a lie.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
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  5. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Where are you going?"He looked over his shoulder at me. "If I stay, you won't get any sleep.""Stay," I said. "I promise to keep my hands to myself." Lie-such an outright lie.He gave me a half smile that told me he knew it, too, but nestled down, tugging me into his arms. I wrapped an arm around his waist and rested my head in the hollow of his shoulder.He idly stroked my hair. I didn't want to sleep-didn't want to lose a minute with him-but an immense exhaustion was pulling me away from consciousness, until all I knew was the touch of his fingers in my hair and the sounds of his breathing.
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  6. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they don't. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they haven't learned enough to figure out that this new person probably won't save them either.
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  7. Chuck Palahniuk _ Doomed

    It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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  8. Ann Patchett _ Run

    ...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...
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  9. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
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  10. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.
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  11. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
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  12. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
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