"All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be."

-- Allan Massie

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.”
“One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.”
“And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead”
“I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time”
“You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.”
“All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.”
“Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]”
“The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.”

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