Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

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I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven't you?

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You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

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Our patron has always sort of danced upon the notion that austerity and piety go hand in hand; down here, we show our appreciation for things by appreciating, if you get me.

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I can't live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don't want to live forever.

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You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

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There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

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If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

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In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.

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When you're a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.

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The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

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I'm sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.

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Advice, chuckled Doña Vorchenza. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

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We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

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When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.

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In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams

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Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

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The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

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It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

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There are only three people in life you can never fool—pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

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You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

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'Commonly thought,' you say? Many things are commonly thought, but perhaps not commonly thought all the way through.

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Liquor does this? Even after you're sober?
A cruel joke, isn't it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.

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This entire situation is insane. Jean slammed his book shut in disgust.
It was insane before; now it's become malicious.

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Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.

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