"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.”
“We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.”
“As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.”
“In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.”
“Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.”
“If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.”
“I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”
“My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.”

Source : "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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