"The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques."

-- Glen Cook

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.”
“Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.”
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”
“The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.”
“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

Source : Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc
“Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.”

Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.
“Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldnâ€™t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob”
“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.”

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