"We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone."

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Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

Kim Stanley Robinson

#Dream Quotes #Pain Quotes #Real Quotes

“Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.”
“You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.”
“Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.”
“Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.”
“Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.”
“The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.”
“We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead
“When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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