“He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.”
Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 5 (p. 200)
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L'homme du Midi ne ment pas, il se trompe. Il ne dit pas toujours la vérité, mais il croit la dire.
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 11
Context: It was a hopeless thing, he thought, this obsession of his to present the people of the Earth as good and reasonable. For in many ways they were neither good nor reasonable; perhaps because they had not as yet entirely grown up. They were smart and quick and at times compassionate and even understanding, but they failed lamentably in many other ways.
But if they had the chance, Enoch told himself, if they ever got a break, if they only could be told what was out in space, then they'd get a grip upon themselves and they would measure up and then, in the course of time, would be admitted into the great cofraternity of the people of the stars.
“He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 12 (p. 161)