Tricks Quotes - Page 28

• Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

  Christopher Paolini

  Waiting, Finding Happiness, Gaps

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• Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

  Andy Warhol

  Mother, Husband, Years

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

  David Wong

  Life, Son, Devil

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.193, Titan Books

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• I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

  Sebastian Barry

  Past, Ribbons, Handbags

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

  Cory Doctorow

  Country, Home, America

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• Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Past, Exit, Illusion

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• I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick.

  Ilona Andrews

  Would Be, Idiot, Cry

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• How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Thinking, Fruit

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• The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Goes On, Forget, Lost

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• The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Eye, Contact, Ifs

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• The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Eye

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• If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.

  Don Roff

  Character, Writing, Heart

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• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Passion, Vanity

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

  Maureen Johnson

  Perfect, Romance, Different

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• I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mouths, Want, Intention

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• With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Feelings, Important, Mental Illness

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.124, Delacorte Press

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• Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Night, Long

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• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.

  Neal Shusterman

  Crazy, Broken, Bars

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• Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.

  Marissa Meyer

  Beautiful, Vanity, Mirrors

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• Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he’s actually doing another. You think that I’m dying, but I’m laughing at you.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Artist, Thinking

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

  John Green

  Love You, Winning, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.235, Penguin

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• If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Trying, Peer Pressure

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• It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mind, Highways, Officials

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 5, 2009), 2005–2015.

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