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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Cosplay. Why you just said the magic word!
An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).
You're contumacious.
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
When two people tell the same lie, the are working together
The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal
Imagination can create lies that duals truths.
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Words were a conjuration, and their charms had begun to bewitch him.
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
[Con] men have long known ... that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.
The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. - Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate
Creativity is magic in the making.
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
The most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
Disinformation is duping.
Misinformation is tricking.
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
I'm a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.
Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.
Cahoots.' He repeated the word, forming the syllables with exaggerated motions of his lips. 'Lovely word, that. The kind of word that's necessary to use, purely for the pleasure of saying it.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet.
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word.
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.
You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries."
"She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda.
"You'll get five years."
"She did them."
From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl
Ingenuity requires creativity.
Holy conspiracies, Batman!
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,
deceit sugar-coated.
You are making me something, cow-woman, or is that just make believe and pretend, like your sex life?'
'I'm making you a gag, Mickey, so I can knit in fucking peace.
Buggeration and Fuckery
Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.
He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...
I'm hallucinating meaning.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom ... " & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
The creative act is not pure.
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate
Phantom Conspiracy,
Concision is the sister of talent.
A con artist's only weapon is his brain.
I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
Cooking is a form of flattery ... a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping ...
Drawing is deception.
Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
The creative processes are so mysterious.
This conspiracy needs a flow chart,
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.
The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.
Conspiracy is always inspired by conspirators
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove ... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.
Changing the story until you believe it.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.
ingenuity. "This
I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.
I'm a provocateur.
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.
discombobulation
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
Plans were promises in disguise.
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
What are you creating?
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Compromised commitments today lead to creative excuses tomorrow.
It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.
Shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:
Someone is out there," I said. "Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - "
"Mixing metaphors?" Thomas suggested.
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.