The work praises the man.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.
Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.