"It is in their 'good' characters that..." - Quote by C S Lewis
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
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“I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.”
“What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?”
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
More on Writing
“I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
“To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
More on Character
“I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.”
“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.”
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”