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“It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.”

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“But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, under the names of John of the Stile, and John of the Nokes, he putteth his case? But that is easily answered: their naming of men is but to make their picture the more lively, and not to build any history. Painting men, they cannot leave men nameless. We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to our chess-men; and yet, me thinks, he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop.”

Character Names Fiction Lie

Book:A Defence of Poetry

Source: A Defence of Poetry

“I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.”

Character Story Stephen King On Writing Character Vs Story

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.”

Character Diligence Sinful Nature

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.”

Character Pain Personal Growth Personal Development Character Defining

Book:The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?

Source: The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?

“I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.”

Writing Character Story Stephen King On Writing

Author:Stephen King

“It is not what a man gets, But what a man is, That he should think of. He should first think of his character, And then of his condition. He that has character need have no fear of his condition. Character will draw condition after it.”

Author:H.W. Beecher (1813-1887)

“Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.”

Character Action Courage

Book:All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost.”

World Life Poetry Poem Living Being Lost

Book:Bright Dead Things

Source: Bright Dead Things

“Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.”

Character Attention Boredom Discipleship Assumptions

Book:Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

Source: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

“Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.”

Character Race Gender

Author:Charles Spencer King