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• Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

  Fred Rogers

  Past, Who We Are

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• It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Powerful, Fate, Tuning

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• The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, Christian, Ministry

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• Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

  Wallace Stegner

  People, Towns

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.77, Penguin

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• If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Peace, Home, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 19, 2017

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• Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Humble

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• The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

  Lin Yutang

  Pity Love, Feelings, Purpose

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• A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Inkheart, Reader

  "Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.

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• Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

  John C. Maxwell

  Rise Above, Limitation

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Doubt, Want

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.225, Harper Collins

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• The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Guy, Plot, Worst

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.389, Baen Books

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• Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

  Hugo Hamilton

  True Character

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• You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

  Robert Kirkman

  Reading, White, People

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• It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

  Richelle Mead

  Firsts, Nephilim, Sesame Street

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• The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Views, Skills

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.30, Penguin

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• I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

  Jose Saramago

  Stars, Book, Pages

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• The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

  Carson McCullers

  Struggle, Humility, Imagination

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• As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

  Charles de Lint

  Notebook, Real, People

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• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Moving, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Giving, Faults

  Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.7

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• For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Grandma, Opera, Littles

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

  James Joyce

  Night, Drug, Age

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.81, e-artnow

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• Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

  Gary Snyder

  Mean, Consciousness, Integrating

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• The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Jobs, Writing, Rocks

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