"For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down."

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Source : Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

Agnes Repplier

#Reading Quotes #Character Quotes #Incidents Quotes

“TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.”
“Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit.”
“We got together and realized that Universal made it clear that they were out of the Riddick business. They didn't want to spend that kind of money anymore. So, it was going to be an independent movie.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self....”
“Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.”
“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps? I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.”

Source : "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.
“I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
“I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.”

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