"It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story."

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Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

Tim Winton

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“For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.”
“If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.”

Source : "Adora Svitak Likes French Philosophy, Reads Three Novels A Day, Has Written 400 Short Stories And Champions Feminism And World Peace. She Is 8". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2006.
“No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
“I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.”
“There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.”
“disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.”

Source : Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.110, Head of Zeus Ltd
“I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit.”
“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.”

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