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What lasts in the reader__ mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what__ it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.
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What lasts in the reader__ mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what__ it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

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