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• reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

  Maurice Sendak

  Artist, Illustration, Ego

  "Sendak at 50" by Selma G. Lanes, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1979.

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• Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
  [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
  Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
  Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

  Ovid

  White, Black, Deceit

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• A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

  Julia Peterkin

  Strength, Time, Long

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• If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mean, Age, Crowns

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Play, Perfect

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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• Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Crafts

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Laziness, Youth, Sofas

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sunshine, Self, Ugly

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Essence, Long Ago

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sunday, People, Kind

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• War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Mean, Ideas

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Trying, Kind, Puzzles

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• That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

  King James I

  Men, Honest, Wit

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• On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

  Ilka Chase

  Real, Love You, Men

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• Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

  Carson McCullers

  Death, Gamer, Sleeves

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

  Gloria Swanson

  Movie, Successful, Hollywood

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• Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
  All is strange, yet nothing new:
  Endless labor all along,
  Endless labor to be wrong:
  Phrase that Time has flung away;
  Uncouth words in disarray,
  Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
  Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

  Samuel Johnson

  Views, Poetry, Phrases

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”, p.113

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• If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

  Criss Angel

  Photography, Believe, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Backstage interview with Criss Angel as Believe is moved to Halloween". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Ideas, Plot, Wonderful

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• Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Play, Mind, Hindsight

  Jeremy J. Siegel (1994). “Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth”, Irwin Professional Publishing

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• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  Aaron Stanford

  Long, Challenges, Actors

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