"Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice."

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God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

— Elizabeth Gilbert