"It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing."

-- Elmore Leonard

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“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”
“Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5”
“I live way out in the country, in truck-country.”

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“The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.”
“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”
“Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.”
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.”
“Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.”

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