"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come."
"The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought."
"Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors."
"No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it."
"Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks."
"Sanity - a trick of agreement"
"The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball."
"The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly."
"Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine."
"Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem."
"No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!"
"I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere."
"I think that's the trick: wanting what I have."
"My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have."
"Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice."
"History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
"Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it."
"To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick."