"I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are at least decent that once I name and begin to know them, young or old, I can then attempt to reveal each as psychologically complex and nuanced, and to speak through them, as William Matthews says, "What it feels like to be human.""

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Jack Driscoll

#Character Quotes #Chance Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.”

Source : "Promised Land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.
“If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
“Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.”
“[Models] have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.”

Source : "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.
“I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.”
“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”
“Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average,”

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