"Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off."

-- Samuel Richardson

#Reflection Quotes #Yield Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.”
“Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them”

Source : Henning Mankell (2013). “The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery”, p.140, The New Press
“Change can't be made within panic”
“I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.”
“They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one”
“Everybodyâ€™s got a mean side. Just donâ€™t feed it till it grows.”
“Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.”

Source : "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.
“We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.”

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