"The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind,……" — Sol Stein
"The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye."
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13 Quotes by Sol Stein
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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
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Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented…
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Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may…
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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
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I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head…
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A writer writes what other people only think.
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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to…
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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to…
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Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
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More Deceive Quotes
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one of 366 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
— Bernard Baruch
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
— Casey Affleck
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
— Albert Camus
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be…
— Thomas Adams
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been…
— Abraham Flexner
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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