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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.
wicked
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Charlotte Bronte
wicked earth would-be
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity. Charles Caleb Colton
wickedness folly
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
wicked witch casts
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
wicked-person lovers common
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
wicked rivals ruins
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. Edmund Burke
wicked done wicked-things
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. Antisthenes
wicked world way
It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with. Daniel Handler
wicked grit true-grit
The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis
ugly suits mood
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit? Bryan Ferry
ugly tribes novelists
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. Jane Gardam
ugly economy user-experience
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. Bill Gates
ugly good-and-bad killing-yourself
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working? Eli Wallach
ugly good-and-bad western-movie
When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
ugly honest comedy
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw. Aisha Tyler
ugly dams canyons
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. Edward Abbey
ugly vices mask
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. Benjamin Franklin
ugly vices virtue
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.