"All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Dream Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.”
“I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”
“When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warriorâ€™s perspective and contact bodhichitta?”
“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”
“The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.”
“As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!”

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