"Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours."

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Julia Scheeres

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Survivor Quotes

“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.”
“If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.”

Source : Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press
“What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.”
“Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life.”
“A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.”
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.”

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