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• I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Sometimes, Very Happy

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• Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

  Eoin Colfer

  Jumping, Giving, Orion

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• Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bent, Crooked

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• You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Real, Moon, Journey

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• Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

  Neal Stephenson

  Add, Saws, Idiot

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Mean, Simple

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• When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Lying, Believe, Passion

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• She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Lying, Love Is, Knowing

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• I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Magic, Fool

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• You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

  Steve Harvey

  Order, Law, Csi

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• Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Stories, Safe

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Mean, Talking

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

  William Gibson

  Fun, Intelligent, Addiction

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Father, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

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• The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk

  Patricia Briggs

  People, Pace, Want

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.37, Penguin

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• It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

  Neil Gaiman

  Easy, Dies

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.294, Hachette UK

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• So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds

  Hayley Williams

  Dirty, Home, Blow

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• Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

  Tana French

  Skills, People, Special

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

  Anne Rice

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

  Kristin Hannah

  Past, Balance, Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

  Ben Goldacre

  Play, Mind, Body

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• Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Real, Hands, Play

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• Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Fate, Blood

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• No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Blood, Bigs, Deals

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• The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.

  Catherine Fisher

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.184, Penguin

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