The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation. - Walter J. Phillips

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I’m Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could’ve been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.

Walter J. Phillips

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

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Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

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It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

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