Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic/Quotes
"See? In real life you wouldn't let me speak this long."
—Maus
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"But I want to represent life in all its mundane, stultifying detail!" you might protest. "And that's how real people speak." True, but those same people will not sit still to read it.
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Sally came into the kitchen and stopped, looking at me plaintively. "You know that big doll of mine that Jannie wrote all over with crayon?" —Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
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