Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot."
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James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts."
Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
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"I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being."
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"Plot and character are virtually the same thing."
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"I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie)."
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"I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not."
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"The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God."
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"Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness."
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"The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer."
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"If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."
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"There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem."
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"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer."
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"But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot."
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"Dialogue is character and character is plot."
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"Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens."
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"I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot."
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"In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being."
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"The story is not in the plot but in the telling."
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"Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?"
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"Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel."
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"He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself."
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"I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free."
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