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“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
― Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn’t enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn’t, what only a few in each century could â€� whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else’s opinion.”
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“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
― Burmese Days
― Burmese Days

“It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.”
― Burmese Days
― Burmese Days

“I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.”
― Cugel's Saga
― Cugel's Saga

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