Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 883 authors
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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…
— Ned Vizzini
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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…
— Mark Vonnegut
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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…
— Ken Kesey
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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…
— Cormac McCarthy
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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…
— Neal Shusterman
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose…
— Holly Black
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Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like…
— Michael Grant
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure…
— Ray Bradbury
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You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind,…
— Marie Lu
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What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in…
— Lauren Oliver
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If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary.…
— Tina Fey
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I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
— Eric Weiner
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This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling…
— Patrick deWitt
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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general…
— Robert Jordan
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I know,†said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose…
— James A. Owen
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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit…
— David Nicholls
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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?†“Hockey? Polo?†“Simultaneously. Trick is…
— Devon Monk
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Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
— Deb Caletti
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