"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

-- Rex Stout

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“Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place â€” and still be home in time to have dinner.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2018
“Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.”
“I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.”
“I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.”
“It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.”
“You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.”

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