"A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously."

-- Albert Camus

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #May Quotes

“I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.”
“Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press
“Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.”

Source : "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jet Black". "Cowboy Bebop", www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2003.
“You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.”
“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.”
“After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.”
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”

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