[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?


J.M.G. Le Clézio

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I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
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AMBER LE BON
What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to ideal...
CHARLOTTE LE BON
The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot cont...
MARINE LE PEN
France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: ...
MARINE LE PEN
I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the sit...
MARINE LE PEN
If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. A...
MARINE LE PEN
I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN
The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
MARINE LE PEN
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son...
JOHN LE CARRE
I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the Eu...
MARINE LE PEN
The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
MARINE LE PEN
In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind...
MARINE LE PEN
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in ...
JOHN LE CARRE
What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.
ADAM LE MESURIER
The exchange rate is again under the spotlight as a wave of protectionist rhetoric rushed through th...
ADAM LE MESURIER
We believe the noise will remain constant, but the signal/noise ratio is clearly falling, as the mac...
ADAM LE MESURIER
Arroyo has been good for the economy. There's a bit of, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' ...
ADAM LE MESURIER
It's looking more and more that she's able to deal with these kind of threats so over time the marke...
ADAM LE MESURIER
We think the case is building for Asia to become a more independent source of growth for the global ...
ADAM LE MESURIER
Over the next six months, we believe there will likely be confirmation that this recession is deeper...
ADAM LE MESURIER
We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM LE MESURIER
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average read...
JOHN LE CARRE
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
JOHN LE CARRE
Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies ...
MARINE LE PEN
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [N...
URBAIN LE VERRIER
Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something ...
MARINE LE PEN
I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry m...
AMBER LE BON
I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously... a...
MARINE LE PEN
This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain...
MARINE LE PEN
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret S...
JOHN LE CARRE
Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out ...
CHAD LE CLOS
The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies de...
MARINE LE PEN
A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...
JOHN LE CARRé
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
JOHN LE CARRE
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
SIMON LE BON
Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They wan...
MARINE LE PEN
Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.
MARINE LE PEN
I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron...
JOHN LE CARRE
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h...
JOHN LE CARRE
For instance, on a small business computer from Hewlett-Packard, the word 'Microsoft' may never appe...
CHRIS LE TOCQ
France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they...
MARINE LE PEN
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE