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- All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson
- Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar
- Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick… — J. B. Priestley
- The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is… — Angela Carter
- People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker
- Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and… — Vernon Coleman
- Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you… — Evan Davis
- It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith