Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I've been living a lie all my life.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.