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1 " I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're intimate with might be, like, 'double agents,' y'know? It's a weird kind of paranoia you get about people you love--that they might turn out to be completely different from who you think they are, that it's all been some sort of diabolically patient plot against you. I think that's a pretty normal fear you have in any serious relationship. And that's why it's such a popular part of the epic, because so many people can relate to that fear. But personally, I don't really worry about it too much. "
― Mark Leyner , The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
2 " Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women. "
― Angela Carter , Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
3 " We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions. "
― Chris Murray , Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
4 " This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned. "
5 " ...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs. "
― , Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
6 " After a democratic interlude the " monarchy" returns with a vengeance, returns by the back door, camouflaged, masked and diabolically perverted—a blood-curdling metamorphosis we know only from nightmares or surrealist films. The reassertion of the natural father-urge does not result in the restitution of the paternal kingdom but in the rise of the Terrifying Father, a Krónos devouring his own children, who are paralyzed by his magnetic glare like rabbits facing a boa constrictor. "
