Alan Lightman Quotes, Character Quotes, Giving Quotes

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Color Quotes

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wall Quotes , Character Quotes

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Action Quotes

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Race Quotes

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

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Tags : Adhir Kalyan Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

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For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , May Quotes

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Perspective Quotes