"I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen."

-- Frank Buckles

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“What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books
“Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.”
“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.”
“Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news format didn't allow for more detail, or the writer didn't see it or just wasn't interested.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!”
“The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”
“I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.”
“But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.”

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