"I always liked strange characters."

-- Tim Burton

#Character Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.”

Source : Melissa Scott (1997). “Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel”, Heinemann Drama
“Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (1873). “Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes”, p.34
“I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.”
“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
“For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”
“Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.”
“Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.”
“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”

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