Quotes Meme

[tenshinoakuma]

So, this was something from a long time ago that I want to do for my current fandom characters now. Pick 5 quotes from here that applies to your characters, not necessarily from the characters' POV.

Joshua
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
- Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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Atsuro
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
- Baltasar Gracian

When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
- Rita Mae Brown
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Toto
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
- Hadewijch of Antwerp

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
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Additionally DMW 27 is outtt asdf;lkj each update makes me so EEE \o/ but uh. How do you handle the 'voice' of a manga character when they often go through different scanlation groups, some who're better than others? I'm so used to having just the one translation (see: games) so it's kind of interesting now that I'm RPing from manga * A*a

Comments

[friendshipbeam.livejournal.com]

Try and distill what the character generally is from the translations, and lean towards the group you think is better. As painful as it is to attempt (and I should know -- right now I'm forcing myself to canon review a manga licensed by Tokyopop), you can end up deciphering what they would have said, and replacing "bust a move, girl" with "let's go already", "allow us to depart", "move it", or whatever the better translators would have gone with becomes easier as you go.

[tenshinoakuma.livejournal.com]

Yeahhh might have a little difficulty with that since Toto's appeared like. 4-5 times in canon. 3 of those 4-5 times are with different scanlators xDDD But that makes sense! /takes your advice on board

(oh god I don't know if I should try getting Tokyopop's translation of DMW when they get caught up ;; )