"The chief thing[...]is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it and gives you still another, and so on. Most people -even women - get discouraged after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not [...]. She keeps trying and you've got to be careful or you'll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you're tired of disbelieving her"
“Practically, yes,” he grumbled. “Everybody's been telling me practically the whole truth. 'What I want's some impractical son of a gun that'll shoot the works.”
Dashiell Hammett, "The Thin Man"
