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"Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie."
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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."

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

"Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this."

"Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception."

"Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also""either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."

"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
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"Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool."

"You really saw some?' Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, 'They really...exist?' 'Liz,' I whispered back, 'they're not unicorns.' 'No,' Bex said flatly, 'they're boys. And they're...good."

"I think you're freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you.''I've been through worse, Bex, I said, joining her on the lower stairs. 'Way worse.'Oh, not the attack. Bex raised her finger in contradiction. 'What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn't think you were going to have one."

"A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free."

"And so that means...''We have to rob the Henley,' Simon said.Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. 'Again."

"You can't really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can't yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning."
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