"I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still need to have their own life. Some characters are absent literally but at the same time very, very present."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jaume Cabre

#Character Quotes

“That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.”
“I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.”

Source : "Ezra Koenig: Soundtrack of My Life" by Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
“I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”
“Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.”
“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”
“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”
“I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.”

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