"That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Way Quotes

“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
“One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”
“Few of us get anything without working for it.”
“Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.”
“You're suppose to sit on your ***** and nod at stupid things.”
“I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!”
“For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”
“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”

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