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things i have: light fingers and a magpie heart your spoon in my drawer your shirt in my closet your blanket in my bed my greatest heist: your hand in mine

inanimate intimacy (via owlmylove)

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I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.

Robin Hobb, Assassin’s Quest

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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

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It was a dream, but Moist was good at selling dreams. And if you could sell the dream to enough people, no one dared to wake up.

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

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Polly turned over, and tried to make herself comfortable. It’s all lies, she thought muzzily. Some of them are just prettier than others, that’s all. People see what they think is there. Even I’m a lie. But I’m getting away with it.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

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Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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wavelengths beyond me ~

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when you roll 20 on bluff

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive

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—Betty Bates in Hit Comics #56 (1949)

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Top 10 Movie Heists Of All Time 

“The ragtag band of outlaws or heroes band together for one perfect job. To pull off that one perfect score. Cue the handoff, the car chase, the narrow getaway. A well-executed heist can make a good movie great. Here are our Top 10 Heists of all time.”

Inside Man (2006) Director: Spike Lee. We’re starting off with an auteur directors’ take on the heist trope, so expect some unexpected use of dual-perspective narrative, and non-linear storytelling.

The Great Train Robbery (1903) Director: Edwin S. Porter. Literally the inventor of the genre, we couldn’t make a list without the Great Train Robbery.

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Director: John Huston. The 11-minute heist sequence in this classic pretty much invented the heist genre for decades to come. And the following decade, saw dozens of takes on the heist.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Director: John McTiernan. Our hands-down favorite of the slew of remakes of ‘60s heist movies we��ve seen recently, the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair combined a stellar cast with some world-class suspense

The Italian Job (1969) Director: Peter Collinson. One of several (dozen) heist films from the 1960s that inspired modern remakes, the original Italian Job is a magnificent symphony of (literally) moving parts. And it pays off (except for the theives)

Inception (2010) Director: Christopher Nolan. While the object of the caper is not art or gold or money, but a thought, the heist in Inception plays out with the same degree of complexity as a traditional heist - and then some!

Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville. An astonishing 25 minutes in length, the jewel robbery in Le Cercle Rouge is a monumental achievement.

Ocean’s Eleven (2001) Director: Steven Soderbergh. The quintessential modern heist movie, grand in scale as it is in its Las Vegas setting.

Thief (1981) Director: Michael Mann. Before he cemented his mastery of the on-screen theft with “Heat” Michael Man was directing the film that took the old noir-style heist and brought it screaming into the modern age.

Rififi (1955) Director: Jules Dassin. 30 minutes long, without music or dialogue, Rififi lets the action of the heist speak for itself.

The Rogue notes: These are all great films (or at least remakes of great films….), and you get some nice commentary on the history of the genre.

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Very hard ethical questions are involved,’ he went on. ‘You are to be made into a good boy, 6655321. Never again will you have the desire to commit acts of violence or to offend in any way whatsoever against the State’s Peace. I hope you take all that in. I hope you are absolutely clear in your own mind about that.’ I said: ‘Oh, it will be nice to be good, sir.’ But I had a real horrorshow smeck* at that inside, brothers. He said: ‘It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321. But all I want to say to you now is this: if at any time in the future you look back to these times and remember me, the lowest and humblest of all God’s servitors, do not, I pray, think evil of me in your heart, thinking me in any way involved in what is now about to happen to you. And now, talking of praying, I realize sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer. A terrible terrible thing to consider. And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. So I shall like to think. So, God help us all, 6655321, I shall like to think.’ And then he began to cry.

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

* “a real horrorshow smeck” = a real good laugh

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