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“It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good.”

Book:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a writer known for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly in the areas of reinforcement learning and rationalist philosophy. more

“Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.”

Interest Fantasy Genre Cheating Dragon Trope

Author:Tom Simon

“A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.”

Love Happiness Summer Distance

Book:Sacré Noir

Source: Sacré Noir

“Attraction isn't wrong. People can’t help who they are drawn to and they certainly can’t control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong is acting on inclination if it hurts someone else, namely a significant other.”

Affair Attraction Temptation Cheating Chemistry

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.”

Cheating Breaking Up

Book:Alpha

Source: Alpha

“No matter how much time of your life you spend on your love, So easily bitch will left you saying: you don't have enough time for me. Bitches never admit this.”

Cheating

Author:Jaiendra Puri

“Cheating’s not easy. You probably think it is, but it ain’t. I bet you’d suck more at cheating than whatever it was you were trying to do legitimately.”

Cheating

Author:Justin Halpern

“She was still not at ease with the idea that she was now important enough to have people as accessories. Nor was she comfortable with the idea of these people as gatekeepers with access to the details of their personal lives. Whenever she felt herself shrinking under the indifferent glare of the staff that surrounded her, as she did in this instance, she straightened her back and lifted her chin in the way that Chiedza, her trusted advisor-friend, had instructed her to do.”

Marriage Feminism Cheating Zimbabwe Economic Crisis Chiedza

Author:Panashe Chigumadzi

“Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement”

Marriage Cheating Infidelity Short Stories Zimbabwe Petina Gappah

Book:An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

Source: An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

“Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.”

Relationships Marriage Dog Cheating Cheat Infidelity Dogs Fidelity Promiscuity Dogs Humour

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was worth it," Faye says after school while she walks me to my car. "It's not fair that you take all the shit for this while the guys get to walk around like nothing happened. They're just as much to blame." "I'm the one who started it," I say, kicking a beer cap across the parking lot with my shoe. "If I hadn't started it, nothing would have happened. "Don't let them off the hook so easily," Faye snaps. "They were coming to you. It takes two to have sex. So don't defend them.”

Sex Friendship Cheating Cheat Unfairness Double Standards Slut Shaming Mercedes Feya Other Women

Book:Firsts

Source: Firsts

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