A Quote by Edmund Clowney
The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
