When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.


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ROBERT HALF
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE
Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE
I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD