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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams,…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but…
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated…
— Walter Jon Williams
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
— Plato
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It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient…
— James Hillman
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When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
— Marya Hornbacher
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With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential…
— Rachel Cusk
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I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are,…
— George R. R. Martin
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
— John Podhoretz
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the…
— Jane Austen
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Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck…
— Marc Davis
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