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"But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."

"An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball."

"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."

"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."

"It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views."

"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."

"It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?"

"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."

"I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It's the least you can do, really, as a polite guest."

"In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life."
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"But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it."

"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."

"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."
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