"Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)"

-- Nick Hornby

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Class Quotes

“I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.”
“Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].”
“I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.”

Source : Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”
“You canâ€™t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
“Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.”
“True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.”
“What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

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