Trick Quotes
892 quotes by 712 authors
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I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,…
— Janet Frame
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to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you…
— Marie Lu
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Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men…
— Gerald Morris
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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of…
— Jim Butcher
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Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie…
— Matthew Quick
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There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you…
— Kevin Smith
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In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.
— Cassandra Clare
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It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
— Zadie Smith
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And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all…
— Kristin Hannah
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Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet…
— Cassandra Clare
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload,…
— Graeme Simsion
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Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me.…
— Veronica Roth
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The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.
— Daniel Handler
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Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy…
— Tom Peters
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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