"That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer."

-- Joseph Conrad

#Dream Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I think America has always been polarized. It's a racist country and it has always been.”
“Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.”
“Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”
“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
“Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.”
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”
“Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.”

Source : "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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