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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined…
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence…
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Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
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Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by…
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly…
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status…
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How…
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As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who…
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a…
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those…
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…
— Peter Straub
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those…
— Sir Walter Scott
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
— Thomas Carlyle
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