"As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a message at the end of anything I write. Otherwise you wouldn't trust the characters. They'd feel less organic and more like puppets that are sharing the author's opinion."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Benjamin Percy

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.”
“Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.”
“The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.”
“Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
“My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricityâ€”it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.”
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”

Source : Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”
“We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.”

Source : "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.
“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.”

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