"When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection."
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"though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
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"The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with."
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"The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them."
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"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."
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"One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot."
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"I love a life whose plot is simple."
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"Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip."
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"There is only one plot-things are not what they seem."
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"I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters."
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"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."
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"The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas."
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"Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot."
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"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell."
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"This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot."
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"My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end."
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"No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land."
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"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
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"I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way."
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"And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot."
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