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«Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement»
«What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
characters, Characters in, literature, novel, sentences, substance, The characters, translation, translations
«The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.»
Author: Lydia M. Child
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amusement, approaches, co, companions, deemed, discharge, ennobled, graceful, inappropriate, in return, neglect, operation, order of business, Order The, partners, pursuits, refined, separation, The characters
«When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
situations, suggest, The characters
«Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Life,
Literature
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African, dickens, dweller, dwellers, Falstaff, for example, ghetto, ghettos, largeness, The characters, Turgenev
«Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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admire, admit, approximate, approximates, characters, close to, criticize, example, follower, followers, golden, Golden Rule, imitate, in private, leaders, pleases, promote, promotes, six, the Action, The characters, The Golden Rule, traits, unconsciously
«I think,it was a smart idea to shoot it all at once, because the characters will be much more complete and convincing. We were living as those characters for a year and a half.»
«This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
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casting, characters, Characters in, doubts, excepting, fairy, fiction, folk, imaginary, imaginary being, offend, thereof, The characters, This is a, unwise
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