Quotes About Character

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It

This is Tyler,' she said. 'He grew up in Tennessee, he has a horse named Custard—' 'Custer,' Tyler said.

Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.

If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

At forty, a man wears the face he's earned.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

Well, there are all kinds of men, and you are the wrong kind.

You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man.' And when that didn't bother me, I thought: 'You're really not a good man.

education could certainly "mould and direct" but could not "alter a child's character.

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

what we are above all other things, is individual and different.

We influence by what we are and by what we do. In one sense, it could be said that we influence others simply by being.

A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and back and had become worthy. A man far better than I, for he had located his moral pole star and set his course by it though it had cost his life.

Raven is an asset in any game including One-Eye. One-Eye cheats. But never when Raven is playing.

money has no provenance. It's never dirty, only the people who handle it are.

of character, who don't believe it when you tell 'em it's really anything they want. They sit there confused and silly, craning their necks all around, asking over and over for a menu.

Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

And now I'm supposed to believe that the leader of the three, Alpha Rat, is a good guy because he fell on his head.

We will know that we have learned this significant principle when we come to the point at which the development and maintenance of a strong inner world becomes the most important single function of our existences.

He was, as soldier and man, all of a piece

Con todo, ni siquiera yo puedo crear un personaje imaginado que resulte tan unidimensional como el lector corriente

The true value of a man is not determined b his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found