Trick Quotes
892 quotes by 712 authors
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Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick…
— Rick Yancey
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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do…
— Ambrose Bierce
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He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself…
— Jodi Picoult
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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
— Deb Caletti
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Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to…
— Truman Capote
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The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
— Wendy Mass
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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently…
— John Green
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Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?†Her stomach twisted. “No.†She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had…
— Marissa Meyer
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I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was…
— David Sedaris
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As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else…
— Maria V. Snyder
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London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always…
— Anna Quindlen
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Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see…
— Hilary McKay
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Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of…
— Janet Frame
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I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you…
— Russell Brand
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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…
— Marissa Meyer
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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…
— Holly Black
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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…
— John Green
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