"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Failures make character, not success."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Strive to be a person of character not a person of power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

Freedom, Right

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

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"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."

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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."

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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

Army, First, Intellectuals, Newspapers

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

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"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."

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"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."

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