"Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency."

-- Marjorie M. Liu

#Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.”
“As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools”

Source : "This Quitter Did Win" by Joe Bastianich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.
“In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
“The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.”

Source : Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”
“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.”
“Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.”
“Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.”

Source : Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”

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