lack of truth Quotes

″Clay, your reputation was deserved. But mine… mine was not. And there I was with you. Adding to my reputation.”

“Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”

“To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization.”

“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more ‘Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.’ It’s rarely the truth: ‘I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.’ ”

“But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everybody knows you can’t disprove a rumor.”

″‘No,’ she shot back without looking at him. ‘You’re telling lies with a little bit of the truth mixed in is all.‘”

“Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.”