"And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a personâ€™s life on this earth. I donâ€™t mean that we all end up dead, thatâ€™s not the great pity. I mean that he couldnâ€™t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldnâ€™t tell him what was real."

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Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.9, Macmillan

Denis Johnson

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
“I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.”
“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”
“Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 91), 2006.
“If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.”
“At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive.”
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

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