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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."

"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

"What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer? Sazed asked."I'd think that you were lying, Vin said."Have you known me to lie before?"The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time."
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"Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' said Tiger with a grin. 'You should be asking her out because she's smart, witty, mature beyond her years and every moment in her company makes you want to be a better person - pretty of face should be at the bottom of the list.' 'Oh, blast,' said Perkins despondently. 'It should, shouldn't it?"

"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."

"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."

"I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!"

"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."

"Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse."

"Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable."

"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
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