"I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning."

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Source : "The unvarnished truth". Interview with Peter Craven, www.theaustralian.com.au. October 3, 2009.

Peter Temple

#Morning Quotes #Character Quotes #Plot Quotes

“In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature ...”
“Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.”
“Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.”
“Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not.”

Source : Katie MacAlister (2016). “Blow Me Down”, p.19, Keeper Shelf Books
“I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press
“If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..”
“Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.”

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