"Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement."

-- Dean Koontz

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.”

Source : "Steven Seagal Gets a Shot at Stardom". Interview with Patrick Goldstein, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 1988.
“One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini himself, in the early 1960s, in the same time that he was developing this other idea of an Islamic state, also hit upon the idea that if a person is born into the wrong sex, it was entirely proper for them to change sex.”
“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

Source : Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press
“I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer -- that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.”
“Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.”
“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”

Source : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin
“I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.”
“For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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