Miriam Toews Quotes

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.