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Quotes About Manipulation

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
With your little claws, Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Because you took advantage of a sinner because you took advantage because you took because you took advantage of my disadvantage …
~ Vladimir Nabokov
In the good old days, by merely twisting fat Valechka's brittle wrist (the one she had fallen upon from a bicycle) I could make her change her mind instantly;
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
~ W.C. Fields
They will let you have dope Because they are quite willing To drug you or kill you. They will let you have babies Because they are quite willing To pauperize you-- Or use your kids as labor boys For army, air force, or uranium mine. They will let you have alcohol To make you sodden and drunk And foolish. They will gleefully let you Kill your damn self any way you choose With liquor, drugs, or whatever.
~ Langston Hughes
If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.
~ lanier jaron
Selling bullshit to a guy who peddled it for a living was no easy task. – Dylan
~ Lara Adrian
Let a woman too close, and while she sucked your cock, she sucked your brains and manhood right out of you, too.
~ Larissa Ione
Sex had always been a weapon, a tool, the only form of currency that never ran out.
~ Larissa Ione
First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.
~ Larry Gonick
Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]
~ Larry Hardiman
I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
~ LaToya Jackson
You couldn't get that much under someone's skin, that much in their blood, and not know exactly how to hurt them, even without trying.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
She'd been played all along. Once again, the dumb blonde. "Marco
~ Laura Griffin
When Bad Eye asked Marvin to teach him English, Marvin saw his chance. With secret delight, he began teaching Bad Eye catastrophically bad English. From that day forward, when asked, "How are you?," Bad Eye would smilingly reply, "What the fuck do you care?
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
She has no use for women, which is why she has to make sure to befriend them.
~ Laura Lippman
No one uses words correctly and if you call them on it, they claim that words are fungible, that it's oppressive and prissy not to let words mean whatever the speaker wishes them to mean.
~ Laura Lippman
Despite the pain and the blood, Roza took in the icy-eyed man's expression of frozen, stony horror and reveled in it, delighted in it. It was delicious, his horror. She wanted to see it up close. She wanted to eat it.
~ Laura Ruby
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton