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“There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can...”
“It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarl...”
“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories - stories that I'll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She...”
“I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies”
“When I am at my work each dayIn the fields so fresh and greenI often think of riches and the way things might have beenBut believe me when I tell you when I get home each dayI'm as happy as a sandb...”
“You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that w...”
“The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith i...”
“In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?...”
“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?”
“If man doesn't dream, he has nothing.""A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.”
“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”
“There's wall of agony between dreams and reality.”
“Walking down the path of dreams, inner-self and listening to your heart are all different names given to your hidden scripts. ”
“New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.”
“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.”
“No matter how talented Richie was or how much shit he talked about what he could do, deep down he just didn't believe it'd happen. He was living day to day: you talk about your dreams, you boast ab...”
“With every dream and with every love, you will have to die and be reborn, to leave the known behind and surrender to the mystery.”
“Dear music,Im writing you this letter to thank you.Thank you for when youre here, you catalyse my imagination.Thank you for this ineffable thing you bring, which makes the experience of writing so ...”
“Your mind can find all the excuses why your dreams are not possible but you will not be able to fight with your mind the stronger pull of your heart.(from The Amazing You movie)”
“Now that the day is almost done, the world of glass recedes, the butterfly threat diminishes. I imagine that we're both here in this bed, that my invisible body is nestled against hers. We are brea...”
