"You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst."

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Adam Haslett

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“Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?”

Source : Edward Whittemore (2013). “Nile Shadows”, p.230, Open Road Media
“I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.”
“I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow â€” there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.”
“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”
“Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.”
“Winning was everything. I donâ€™t care what they tell you.”
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

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