#oft

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#character #complex #complex character #i #interesting

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#masses #often #plundered

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#concept #morality #much #often #stronger

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#american movie #chair #deeply #end #feel

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cynical #depressing #extremely #i #known

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#far #heaven #into #men #often

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#full #joys #often #only #our

I believe that dogma is often evil. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#dogma #evil #i #i believe #i believe that

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' ↗

— James Belushi

#avalanche #celebrity #comes #complicated #death