"There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit."

-- Rex Stout

#Character Quotes #Two Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.”
“It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.”
“Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey
“Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.”

Source : "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.
“I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?”
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”
“You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.”
“No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!”

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