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• There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

  Roald Dahl

  Wise, Clever, Memories

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Winning, Years

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• Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Knives, Lasts

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• Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

  T. H. White

  Love Is, Mind, Bait

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.45, Penguin

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• Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Chance, Life Is, One Chance

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• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Doubt

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

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• She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

  Raymond Chandler

  Air, Theatre, Four

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

  William Goldman

  Mean, Men, Rocks

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.109, A&C Black

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• Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

  E. B. White

  Trying, Too Much, Sometimes

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• Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

  Garth Nix

  Home, Play, Telephones

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.127, Hot Key Books

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• Hey, Vader, keep your Jedi mind tricks to yourself. That hurt! (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Mind, Hey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Just Friends, Lock And Key

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

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• Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

  Charles de Lint

  Ideas, Giving, Advice

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• I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Jealous, Thinking, Cracks

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• There’s too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d’in. (Jericho) Yes, I di’id. Don’t make me use my Jeri ninja mind tricks on you. I might screw up and fry your brains. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brain, Mind, Screw Ups

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• What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

  Gena Showalter

  Eye, Blow, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.18, HQN Books

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• We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

  Anna Godbersen

  Eye, Everyday Objects, Tree

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• The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Becoming, Staying

  "Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak". Book by Jayme Lynn Blaschke (p. 182), April 1, 2005.

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• That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

  Robin Hobb

  Government, Desire, Needs

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.140, Spectra

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• Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

  Groucho Marx

  Giving, Mind, Paper

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• He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Blame, Enough

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• Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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• As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Awkward, Advantage, Inarticulate

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