"Iâ€™ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself."

-- John Gregory Dunne

#Character Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.”
“Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.”
“The great soul surrenders itself to fate.”
“It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.”
“Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.”

Source : Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.152
“Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.”
“If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.”
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”

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