Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
There's a degree of deception in silence.
We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicious. Calling someone a liar for no good reason is a frightening proposition for most.
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.