"But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters."

-- E. M. Forster

#Character Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Artist Quotes

“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”
“I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.”
“I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.”
“Being in love is totally punk rock.”
“My greatest inspiration had come from messages delivered through spirit sources, who seemed to guide my every step.”
“What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.1, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.”
“When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.”

Source : Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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