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41 " Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new. "
― Belinda Bauer , Rubbernecker
42 " For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you. "
― Rosamund Lupton , Sister
43 " Trying to Jedi mind trick the towel into falling off me won’t work. You’re a rugby player not Luke Skywalker.”He grinned. “I have a light sabre in my pants that says different.” Oh he did. And he wielded that weapon of mass distraction well. "
― Amy Andrews , Playing With Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby, #4)
44 " All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”).Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”.Thus, all war is based in metaphor.All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry.Poetry (since indefinable) is the sense of seduction.Therefore, all war is the storytelling of seduction, and seduction is the nature of war. "
― Pola Oloixarac , Savage Theories
45 " Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. "
― E.B. White
46 " The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. "
― Stephen King
47 " From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. "
48 " There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it. "
― Morley Callaghan
49 " About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince. "
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50 " Waiting was the part of the criminal life so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn't like the weather, you didn't rush into the storm - you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet. "
― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
51 " Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now! "
― Celia Rivenbark , Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
52 " Harada: Failure is essential, Amanda. It's the motivator. Even as an infant. You fall and fall again until eventually you can put one foot in front of the other and walk.Amanda: I don't like the not knowing. Not knowing what's wrong. Not knowing what I'm doing. Not knowing what's happening next.Harada: You're human. Of course you don't like it. The trick is learning to savor the unknown. To embrace mystery. Trust me... too much knowlegde can become... will become a bigger burden than ignorance and failure will ever be. "
― Matt Kindt , Unity, Volume 5: Homefront
53 " School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible. "
― E.M. Forster
54 " The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. "
― Teresa Mummert
55 " It was a bright day for me when I realised there wasn’t any one way to live as myself. You’re not a character. You have as many sides and reflections as the ripples that pass through a river in the spring. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you must be one person. Because you will never be only one person. Not even in the span of a day are you only one person. We are worlds stitched inside skin. There’s nothing small or simple about a world. There’s nothing small or simple about any living being. Remember this the next time someone tells you who to be and how to live. They haven’t figured it out yet. But don’t let yourself forget. "
― F.K. Preston
56 " It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your " self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact. "
57 " The trick to taking the paper off the crayons...is to just do it. There is no trick. "
― Dan Bergstein
58 " I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. "
― Robinson Jeffers , The Selected Poetry
59 " Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune. "
― Annie Lyons , The Choir on Hope Street
60 " And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again. "
― Francine Prose , Goldengrove