Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “To tell the truth, I saw an advertisement for able-bodied seamen, when I was a boy, sauntering in my native port, and as soon as I came of age I embarked.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “Through dinner she felt a gradual icy coldness stealing through her like novocaine. She had made up her mind. It seemed as if she had set the photograph of herself in her own place, forever frozen into a single gesture.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)