Alan Dean Foster Quotes, Book Quotes, Character Quotes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Wind Quotes

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.

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I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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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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The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

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