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Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification. Paul Harding

You Experience World Will Once Out All The Difference Find About Mysterious Mystery Write Between Conceit Cliche Reader Opinion Stylistic Prove Truly Precisely Human Difference Human Experience Your Figures Received

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth. Steven Erikson

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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves. T. E. Hulme

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If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.' Terry Zwigoff

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The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie. Thomas Newman

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