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Dennis Coates

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Author Dennis Coates is an internationally renowned luxury Hotel/ Hospitality consultant/manager.

Trained in management at the Savoy Hotel Group in London and completed a 'stage' in Lausanne Switzerland - then appointed as Consultant/Director of the H.C.S. Group. Advisor to Governments, Corporations, Hotel Groups and Brewers in UK Europe, Africa, Mid East and Far East.
Now in active retirement in UK.
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Answer. The narrator in a work of fiction is granted an opportunity to express his/her views vividly, with many personal (empiric) opinions about issues which will be rejected in fact based reports.

The editing process for reports or research findings does not allow such flexibility, nor does it permit or encourage the writer to make any statement which could be regarded as politically incorrect, beyond the ability of the authors to deliver, contrary to any legal or corporate laws, or outside of the terms of reference that set parameters on the research/enquiry before commencement.

As an example of a ‘reality v perception’ approach, no report/research could include the statement …………

“ A Welsh windbag who drones on for ages and ages, grazing happily on the southern slopes of the Orals”

…..as a viable expression of the shared views that exist between Senior & Junior managers in the same organisation.

The freedom granted to the narrator in a reality based novel enables him/her to make pertinent asides and use humour or romance to illustrate valid and memorable lines which re-enforce the novel to lasting effect.
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“Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.”
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
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“Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.”
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