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That's excellent advice for writing fiction. Audiences root for charming characters much more than for good ones. Especially useful when your world only contains villains. This is harder in real life, since your opponents can ignore your witty one-liners and emphasize your mass murders.
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The scary thing is how often it does work in real life. (Except that in real life charm is more than just witty one-liners.