"The Art of the Matter" is short story in Frederick Forsyth's book The Veteran (2001). Set around the turn of the millennium in London, it tells the story of a middle-aged, impoverished, out-of-work actor, Trumpington Gore, who seeks revenge after being defrauded by the CEO of an art auction house.
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“The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.”
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“It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll- line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And are probably below it yourself.”
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