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“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Long Book Character Dream Novel Know How Air Towns Breaths Never Quit Undone Unwritten Hovering Book Of Disquiet Prologue

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad.”

Thinking Wells Kind Mean Character Lasts Air Scene Breaths Last Day Devastated Very Sad

Author:Willow Shields

“Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.”

Long Said Character Left Interesting Breaths Blow Determined Silly Tall Broads Long Ago Spoiled Lilies Interesting Characters Enchanting Flora Peonies

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.”

Ifs Long Real Enough Character Stories Breaths Sells Smell Newspapers Being Real

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.”

Needs Character Feelings Individual Walks Example Expression Type Areas Breaths Longing Patterns Tension Chests Repression Stance Blocked Repressed

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it's just second nature, it just becomes easy.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Character Easy Forget Breaths Puppets Puppeteer

Author:Andy Serkis

“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”

Real Character Hate Friendship Enemy Virtue Reflection Breaths Mirrors Faults Warmth Real Friends Self Reflection Real Character Clearness

Author:Jean Paul

“You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.”

Knows Character Remember Actors Watches Air Breaths Small Parts Fresh Air Character Actors Old Movie

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”

Ifs World Heart Character Able Destiny Novel Involved Empathy Breaths Sensual Breathing Another World Allegory Inhale Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”

World Feels I Can Country Character Stories Reading Hours Roles Knowing Sitting Breaths Details Wander

Author:Gustave Flaubert