"Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.”
“Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.”
“He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .”
“Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.”
“I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.”
“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

Source : "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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