"I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better."

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Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org

Dacia Maraini

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.”
“As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.”

Source : Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.158, Bantam
“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”
“A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.”
“Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.”

Source : Renata Adler (1999). “Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker”
“whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.236, The Floating Press
“Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.”
“I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.”

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