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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
too-much enough
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. Alan Ladd
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Charles Spurgeon
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. Djuna Barnes
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
too-much attention danger
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention. Jane Austen
too-much argument disputes
Arguments are too much like disputes.
too-much used changed
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me. China Mieville
too-much taste littles
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much. William Shakespeare
illusion
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. Alan Watts
illusion vain dangerous
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. Elie Wiesel
illusion fame given
Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. Ashley Olsen
illusion should ends
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. Aprilynne Pike
illusion lover shakespeare theatre
Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion. Dean Gilmour
illusion pursuit possession
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. Elbert Hubbard
illusion orators
Time is an illusion-to orators.
illusion maybe people understand
Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.
illusions rich
I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.