"It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about"

-- David Lodge

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Awakening Quotes

“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.”
“Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.”
“And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.”
“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”
“Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.”
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.”

Source : Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
“If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time”

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