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The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if isn’t actually there; sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you’ll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you’ve found as what you were looking for.

— Tom Holt The Devil You Know (2016)

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The more he asserted it, the less they believed him, which is human nature for you.

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Take anything to its logical conclusion and you’re likely to end up with the grotesque and the absurd.

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