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«Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.»
«Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.»
«Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
and the like, eminently, plot, storyteller, storytellers, the like
«A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises.»
«Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, freighted, objection, peevishness, plot, The Mark of, wrangler
«My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast on, figure, figure out, figuring, has a, plot, plotting, superb
«NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes --some of which have a large sale.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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actualities, actuality, altitude, bearing, category, composition, corresponds, distinctly, distinguishing, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, essentials, First Impressions, fitted, impressions, in Russia, literal, Literary Art, literary composition, Long To, mount, novels, pad, padded, pads, pages, panorama, plot, probability, relation to, reporting, Russia, sale, short stories, short story, successive, successively, The Impressions, the novel, The short story, three parts, totality, wing
«If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.»
«In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth. Terrorists and terrorist states do not reveal these threats with fair notice in formal declarations. And responding to such enemies only after they have struck first is not self defense. It is suicide. The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.»
Author: George Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
appeasement, chemical, defense policy, disarming, Enemy of the state, first century, formal, Hussein, plot, responding, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, self defense, struck, terrorist, terrorists, The First Evil, this century, Threats
«I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot»
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