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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
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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
Life
Experience
Worth
Own
Extricate
Life Experience
Ongoing
Written
Idea
Conceit
Tale
His
Very
Author
Being
Little
Her
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. Hulme
Good
National
Ourselves
Give
Conceit
Partisan
Histories
Us
Designed
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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Seriously
Films
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Humorous
Worse
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More
Retirement
Conceit
Were
Years
Quirky
Going
Even
Even Worse
Early
The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.
Thomas Newman
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Style
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Golden Age
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