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“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side.”

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Author:David Twohy

“I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.”

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Author:Robert Paul Weston

“As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing in novels. I don't really believe that the backstory is the story you need. And I don't believe it's more like life to get it - the buildup of "character" through psychological and family history, the whole idea of "knowing what the character wants." People in real life so often do not know what they want. People trick themselves, lie to themselves, fool themselves. It's called survival, and self-mythology.”

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Author:Rachel Kushner

“You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I’d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I’d paid.”

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Author:Charlaine Harris

“Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.”

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Author:John Ciardi

“There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.”

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Book:Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.”

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Author:Dwight Yoakam

“They took everything but the fire inside me—and that was the one thing they should have feared.”

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Book:The Sword and the Hearth

Source: The Sword and the Hearth