"You're breaking out of character, again."

-- Dave Eggers

#Character Quotes

“I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building."”

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“It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.”
“Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.”
“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”
“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.”
“Donâ€™t fall in love with the blessings. Fall in love with the Blessor. Seek first the Kingdom & God will reward you!”
“I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.”
“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”

Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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