Lydia Lunch Quotes

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

A lie cannot live.

Every edit is a lie.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

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

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.