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"When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew
then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep
quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity
to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which
naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it
was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment.
I learned how to look cheerful while under the table
I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a
virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists
to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what
to think, and novelist to see what I could get away
with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully
simple principle: win or die."

Glenn Cose, Dangerous Liaisons (1988) "A Virtuoso of Deceit".

Description
"When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew
then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep
quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity
to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which
naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it
was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment.
I learned how to look cheerful while under the table
I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a
virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists
to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what
to think, and novelist to see what I could get away
with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully
simple principle: win or die."

Glenn Cose, Dangerous Liaisons (1988) "A Virtuoso of Deceit".