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Good manners means lying a lot.
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We talked about where we’d live. I wanted to find a new place with her, she wanted to get out of the “hole in the wall” she’d occupied since she and her partner had split up, and was happy to move in with me for a while. We talked about moving stuff around. How can a discussion of moving a table from one side of a room to the other make you so happy? I don’t know. It did.
Ha
In fact, once you’re scared, you might start making bad decisions. It can twist up your head, to where maybe you do something stupid just because you’re afraid your reason for not doing it is because you’re
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The other thing is that when you’re scared, one of the weird things that happens is that you’re suddenly filled with the desire to get it over with. Not your best mindset when in danger, know what I mean?
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“No, I don’t like learning. It means doing things I don’t know how to do right, and I hate that.”
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“So,” she said after a couple of bites and an elegant sip, “now that your brilliant example of deductive prowess has revealed that the Tsalmoth Heir’s property is being exploited by the Left Hand, and that the Empire is probably investigating, what’s our next move?” “I understood some of those words. I just want to say that.” “The part where I asked about our next move?” “Yeah, that.”
Haha
You know, now that I think about it, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the answer to, “why did so-and-so get shined?” is, “he got greedy.”
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Just so you’re clear, no, I knew it wasn’t my fault. I was doing that thing where you say something you know isn’t true. We call it lying. It’s a useful skill because if you do it right, it can get you out of more jams than it gets you into. Barely.
