Larry Speakes Quotes

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

Repetition often becomes fact.

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

All we have is the story we tell.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.