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The curse of the middle-aged man was knowing — or believing — that he'd told all he had to tell. Soon as you suspect that, you started wanting something, anything, to prove it wasn't so: and that's where the mistakes started, when the bad things happened.

— Michael Marshall Smith The Lonely Dead (2004)

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My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

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