Judith Rossner Quotes

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

In the end a lie is a lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A lie cannot live.

That which is cannot be true.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

A lie never lives to be old.