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"Interesting storyline but the writing is irritating.
Do I really need to know that her nails clicked against a "Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro"? Is that level of detail relevant when it has nothing to do with anything?
Also every time a character speaks they are "firm but kind" "gentle but sharp" "neutral but robust".
Cut out long descriptions of unimportant things and 25 pages would have already been removed." — Feb 21, 2026 11:21AM
"Interesting storyline but the writing is irritating.
Do I really need to know that her nails clicked against a "Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro"? Is that level of detail relevant when it has nothing to do with anything?
Also every time a character speaks they are "firm but kind" "gentle but sharp" "neutral but robust".
Cut out long descriptions of unimportant things and 25 pages would have already been removed." — Feb 21, 2026 11:21AM
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
“So many books, so little time.”
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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
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