"The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not."

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Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

Thomas Perry

#Character Quotes #Common Quotes #Good Person Quotes

“All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.”
“The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.”
“I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.”
“When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.”
“You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
“The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.”
“I knew a girl named Nikki I guess U could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine. She said "How'd U like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.”
“You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.”

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