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Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.

Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
– Diana Gabaldon

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  1. If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there-”take it out or change it. – Diana Gabaldon
  2. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  3. Slow-slow-quick-quick-slow went her heart.-œDamn, I love the tango,- he whispered, tickling her ear. – Ophelia London
  4. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  5. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
  6. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  7. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  8. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  9. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
  10. You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. – Diana Gabaldon
  11. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  12. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  15. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. I’ve seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled – yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  20. The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? – Diana Gabaldon
  21. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
  22. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  23. Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. ‘The grave’s a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace. – Diana Gabaldon
  24. I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  26. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  27. Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed. – Howard Nemerov
  28. The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. – Vera Nazarian
  29. Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark. – Richard Powers
  30. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. – Edward R Murrow
  31. The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. – TJ Stiles
  32. The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. – TJ Stiles
  33. Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers. – Debasish Mridha
  34. Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower. – Debasish Mridha
  35. Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace. – Alaric Hutchinson
  36. To work properly as A.I…. – I should have doubt… and contradictory in my code…. – Deyth Banger
  37. I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype. – Shirley Manson
  38. Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping – Nicholas Sparks
  39. People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned. – Sara Sheridan
  40. As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. – Charles Baudelaire

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