"We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Admire Quotes

“Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.”
“In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.”
“You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.”
“I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.”
“Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.”
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

Source : Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics
“Life is nothing without friendship.”

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