"Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life"

-- Pavel Florensky

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Waking Quotes

“George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.”
“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.”
“For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”
“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...”
“But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.”
“And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!”
“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”
“I was invincible, at least thats what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.”

Source : "Alcoholism Series: Former Congressman John Sweeney says getting sober was a matter of life and death". Interview with Patrick H. Donges, www.saratogian.com. March 13, 2011.

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