"The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer."

-- Billy Wilder

#Plot Quotes #Hiding Quotes #Subtle Quotes

“Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.”
“All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.”
“Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.”
“Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.”
“As artists, itâ€™s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.”
“We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.”
“A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.”

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