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“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”

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“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.”

Book:North and South

Source: North and South

“Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones”

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“You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.”

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Book:Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

Source: Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

“Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.”

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“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”

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“Great beauty can be found in harmonious contrast variations, and brief uses of extremes. Vastly.”

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“Throughout the years Bowman's efforts to change Daisy had been met with valiant resistance. She liked herself the way she was and therefore trying to do anything with her was like attempting to herd a swarm of butterflies. Or nailing jelly to a tree.”

Character Humor Impossible

Book:Scandal in Spring

Source: Scandal in Spring

“Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original; she used to repeat sounding phrases from books; she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment, but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her”

Character Character Description

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

Writing Character Possibility Author

Book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art. And so it is with life; each step, each deed, each brief choice builds gradually, day by day, to shape both character and destiny.”

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Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year