Famous quotes containing the words fictional, character and/or played:
“One of the proud joys of the man of lettersif that man of letters is an artistis to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the worlds memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (18221896)
“When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire Who gained by it? Mans character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“will your eyes lie in wait,
little field mice nestling on their paws?
Perhaps they will say nothing,
perhaps they will be dark and leaden,
having played their own game
somewhere else....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)