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For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Actual Begin Common Etc Excessive Fiction Instead Introducing Metaphysical Mistakes Most Narratives Off Often Place Speculation Start Story Students Teach Third Until Way Wrong Wrong Place

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Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Citizens Course Even Excessive Flowing Force Forests Gas Global Governments Indigenous Justice Keep Minerals Often Oil Poor Quick Reveals Rivers Study Too Use Wild Witness

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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

~Demosthenes

Topics: Excessive Free Good Security States Tyrants

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I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Been Cynicism Developed Different Different Kind England Excessive Gone Kind Might Nostalgia Origins Them Think Totally Would Writer I Think

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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Could Excessive France Italy Off Private Tax Through Wealth

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The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.

~Elise Stefanik

Topics: Been Changing Delays Employees Excessive Farmers Fit Guest Needs Program Prone Rigid Too Visa

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When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

~Erin O'Connor

Topics: Bit Blind Bought Burnt Cheese Cooking Down Escaped Excessive Father Fire Flames Forgiven Grill Had Kitchen Lovely Making Me New Off Panic Parents Put Stopped Toast Water Years

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People don't follow me around, and they don't stop me in a way where it's excessive or invasive. It's always respectful. If it's not, I set my boundaries, and I walk away. That's just what you kind of have to do.

~Frances Bean Cobain

Topics: Always Around Away Boundaries Excessive Follow Just Kind Me People Respectful Set Stop Walk Way Where You

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I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

~Francesca Annis

Topics: Excessive Got Over Pride Suffer Used Well

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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Cannot Companions Either Engaged Excessive Fellowship Folk Fools Knave Making Men Most Others Our Perilous Reason Risk Run Since Without

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