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"Sometimes dialogue that appears more relaxed or sedate or even inconsequential on the surface is just as important (or even more important) than the faster-paced rapid-fire stuff." The writer does not know, and cannot know, what effect "relaxed, sedate, or even (seemingly, to the writer) inconsequential dialogue may have on the reader's perception of the character(s) or what is or may be lying just below the surface of the story. It's not the writer's job to decide what is important to the reader. It should be left up to the reader to make that decision, so anything the characters say which the writer doesn't include in his telling of the story amounts to conscious, critical-mind censorship by the writer that potentially deprives the reader of insight into both the characters and the story they're living.

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