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Antagonist Quote by Amos Oz

“I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between…” quote by Amos Oz — Download Open image

“I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.”

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Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Thomas Jefferson

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Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any…

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

William Ellery Channing

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It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in…

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Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our…

Kealan Patrick Burke

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I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care…

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If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

William Atherton

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“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Thomas Jefferson

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From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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