"Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories."

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John Crowley

#Stories Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.”
“The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.83, Shambhala Publications
“by getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. .. we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 44, 1988.
“Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.”
“The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming â€” what should I do? â€” with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

Source : Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press
“We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.”

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