"Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living."

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Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

Pascal Mercier

#Life Is Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.”

Source : Michael Heizer, Barbara Heizer (1984). “Sculpture in Reverse”
“You've got to keep moving, keep creating.”
“May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.”
“Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.”
“I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.”
“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
“Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress.”
“A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.”

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