"One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character."

-- Lynne Truss

#Character Quotes #Judging Quotes #Details Quotes

“By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
“Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.”
“â€¦I donâ€™t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.”
“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited
“Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.”

Source : "Fruitvale Station's success a 'surprise' for first-time director Ryan Coogler" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2013.
“Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.”

Source : Rupert Sheldrake (1988). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature”, Vintage
“I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.”

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