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• Rocking on a lazy billow
  With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
  Thou art now wise.
  Wake the power within thee slumbering,
  Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
  Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
  Sweet labour's prize.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?

  Victor Serge

  Believe, Errors, Light

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• Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Moving, Writing, Three

  "7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel". www.writersdigest.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

  Eudora Welty

  Character, Somewhere Else, Would Be

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• Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Rights, Government, Individual

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• The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted.

  Keith Donohue

  Memorable, Character, Twists

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• The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Sweet, Work, Rain

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• [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Nature, Science, Earthquakes

  " Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volumes 12-13" (p. 6), 1980.

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• Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.

  George Washington

  Monday, Fate, America

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• Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots.

  Richard Haynes

  Art, Reading, Drunk

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• I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Care

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

  David Langford

  Technology, Mercenary, Devices

  David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

  Edward Burns

  Stars, War, Taken

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• If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

  Jeff Beck

  Success Or Failure, Ifs

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• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Pia Zadora

  Movie, Spy, Information

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• If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

  Ann Coulter

  Wish, Say Anything, Terrorist

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.186, Crown Forum

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

  Gerald Posner

  Conspiracy, Cia, Documents

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• I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

  Terry Teachout

  Book, Writing, Appreciate

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• Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

  Peter Lovesey

  Real, Pages Turning, Intriguing

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• Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

  Bayard Rustin

  Birth Place, Mind, Rooms

  Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

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• I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction, Losing, Equilibrium

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• You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rivers, Feet, Twists

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.11, Nan A. Talese

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