Virginia Woolf Quotes, Character Quotes, People Quotes

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Writing 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

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Found Quotes

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.

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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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