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  1. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.
    book-quoteevilmanipulationcorruption

  2. David Burns _ The Life and Death of the

    was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
    book-quotebiographyatheismatheist

  3. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.
    book-quotepoliticsliespoliticians

  4. Kresley Cole _ Lothaire

    Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.
    book-quotelovemanipulationconfusion

  5. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
    book-quotedeceit

  6. Frank Herbert _ Dune Messiah

    Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover," Paul said.
    book-quotepowerlimitsstatecraft

  7. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
    book-quotehumilitydeceit

  8. Euripides _ Orestes

    When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
    book-quoteevilpowergovernment

  9. William Shakespeare _ Much Ado About Nothing

    DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
    book-quotelovewomenmen

  10. Philip Roth _ Operation Shylock: A

    It was not for me, after these last seventy-two hours, to reject as too outlandish the possibility that the situation for him here had driven George crazy. Yet I did reject it. It was just too insipid a conclusion. Not everybody was cray. Resolute is not crazy. Deluded is not crazy. To be thwarted, vengeful, terrified, treacherous--this is not to be crazy. Not even fanatically held illusions are crazy, and deceit certainly isn't crazy--deceit, deviousness, cunning, cynicism, all of that is far from crazy...and there, that, , there was the key to my confusion. Of course!
    book-quotedeceitdeludedresolute

  11. alice walker _ The Color Purple

    But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?
    book-quoteloverelationshipmemory
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