"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language."

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Source : Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

Gail Godwin

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Language Quotes

“I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.”
“I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.”

Source : "Pedro Martinez says he’s on way to retirement". www.washingtontimes.com. May 1, 2011.
“If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.”
“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press
“Now he belongs to the ages.”

Source : Quoted in Century Illustrated Magazine, Jan. 1890
“I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.”
“There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.”
“This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '... It did not know because it did not care... until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation.”

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