Native Character Set

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

    You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.
    —For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    [A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
    James Boswell (1740–1795)

    ... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)