"I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Dating Quotes

“The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
“My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."”
“You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.”
“Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”
“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.”
“Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?”

Source : Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.
“For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.”

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