"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

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"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

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"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Deception, Lovers, Smiles

"I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Deception, Truth, Regret, Power, Life

"The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Deception, Lies, Truth, Humanity, Life

"True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Deception, Evil, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Deception, Miracle, Focus, Illusion

"Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Deception, Knowledge, Perception, Truth

"Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Deception, Lies, Trust, Behavior

"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Deception, Excuse, Strategy, Truth

"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Deception, Truth, Appearance, Life

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"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."

Thought, Dream, Years

"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."

Job,

"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."

People, Learning, Study

"Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas."

People, Ideas, Fiction

"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."

Learning, First, Writing

"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."

Learning, Study

"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."

Ambition, Fire

"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."

Mastery, Skill

"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."

Science, Fiction, First, Homosexuality

"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."

Life, Dream, Conviction