"You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected."

-- Tao Lin

#Skulls Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives”
“The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's always there, and I think that maybe it's a way of dealing with the idea of mortality, trying to acknowledge the fact that all things change, and whereas, maybe death is the end of one state of being it's the beginning of something else. I'm not talking about going to heaven or being reincarnated as a toad, I'm talking about the idea that the molecules in our bodies, or at least the atoms, were here at the beginning of the universe, and the sense that we are basically matter.”
“The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.”
“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.577, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.”
“I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.”

Source : "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.
“Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.”
“If you love something, the work will be just fine.”

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