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"A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue."

"To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor."

"An evil person will have evil friends. A righteous person will have righteous friends. The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise."

"Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing."

"It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character."

"Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you."

"Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot."

"Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?"

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

"I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught."
Explore more quotes by Raymond Queneau

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."

"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."

"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."

"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."

"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
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