Literary Character Appropriation Quotes

#1. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Norman Lock

#2. To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious emerged high above the planet's southern continent, almost two thirds of the way to the pole.

Craig Alanson

#3. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Norman Lock

#4. {Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.

Norman Lock

#5. To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

Norman Lock

#6. We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.

Norman Lock

#7. Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust.

Norman Lock

#8. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

Gordon Sinclair

#9. If you know your ill-intentions, I resist your unhealthy-actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind ... Only when I am totally immersed ... absorbed in work ... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.

Catherine Stock

#11. The State, that immune betrayer, which embezzles billions and jails anyone who defrauds it of as much as five marks, would find some pretext for not paying.

Erich Maria Remarque