"I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Attitude Quotes #Character Quotes #World Quotes

“This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.”
“Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.”
“No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.”
“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”
“The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.”
“Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.”
“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”
“Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.”

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