"If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity."

-- Phyllis Bottome

#Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes #Play Quotes

“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”
“Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.”
“Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.306, Simon and Schuster
“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
“Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal,”
“The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.”
“A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

Source : "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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