A coral paper mask peeking from behind a folded gray card screen, connected by a taut thread, on a lavender surface.

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Samantha

The act of cheating is defined by the act of getting caught. One doesn’t exist without the other.

— Sex and the City · 1998

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker argues that cheating only counts as cheating once it is discovered. In this view the deed and the exposure come as an inseparable pair, so an undiscovered betrayal barely qualifies. It is a cynical, deliberately provocative definition, and the speaker's own claim rather than a settled truth.

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