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“I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.”

“For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.”

Writing Years Littles Ideas Character Fun Stuff Waiting Voice Personality Picks Weight Shoulders Good Ideas Awkward Autonomy Getting Started Bad Stuff Bad Years

Author:Whit Stillman

“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.”

Men Moments Might Happens Waiting Happened Minutes Personality Notion Supreme Sat Fifteen

Book:Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

Source: Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

Knows Mind Humans Body Age Dies Waiting Human Beings Known Five Months Personality Female Twenties Posts Thirty Twelve Defects Femininity Mind And Body Twenty Five Shackles Ovaries

Author:Florence King

“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]”

I Can Waiting Water Deals Secret Path Personality Shapes Flow Suits Suits You Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”

Seems Beautiful Waiting Interesting Meditation Modern Personality Catastrophe

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.”

Ifs Thinking Years May Mean Doe Country Seems Beautiful Waiting White Interesting Tree Sky Modern Personality Laughter Snow Brown Catastrophe Grey Days Of The Year

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?”