"Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one."

-- Lore Segal

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.”

Source : "The stimulus of science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2009.
“Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.”
“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

Source : Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan
“You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.”
“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”
“... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.”

Source : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.30, Da Capo Press
“Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious”
“How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?”

Source : Will Tuttle (2016). “World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.50

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