"Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance."

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Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books

Tan Twan Eng

#Morning Quotes #Memories Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.”
“A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.”
“I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Everybody in America is angry about something.”
“A master passion is the love of news.”

Source : 'The Newspaper' (1785) l. 279
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
“To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.”

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