"What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position."

-- Bill Watterson

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.”
“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.”
“The docÂtrine of the Church should be proven, not announced. ThereÂfore show that the ScripÂtures teach these things.”
“There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!”
“I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.”
“She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.”
“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”
“In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.”

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