Protagonists Quotes

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Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy… — Frank B. Wilderson III
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration… — Uma Krishnaswami
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which… — Edward Bernays
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but… — Cassandra Clare
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved… — Christopher Darden
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there… — Jill Paton Walsh
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution. — Steve House
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. — Miriam Toews
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a… — Augusto Boal
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the… — Mariella Frostrup
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any… — Donald Miller
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. — Harold Brodkey
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications… — Clifford Irving
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is… — Laura Chinchilla
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses… — Alane Ferguson
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when… — Salvatore Quasimodo
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be — Hjalmar Branting

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