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"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."

"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."

"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."

"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."

"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
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"Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be."


"Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else " someone like the blonde ticket-seller."


"She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was."


"And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside."


"You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?"


"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."


"The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been."
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