Native Character Set

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

“The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it—this is the native tendency of the amoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“[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)