"To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn."

-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Earth Quotes

“My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.”
“Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”
“No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.”
“Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.”

Source : William Trevor (2011). “The Story of Lucy Gault”, p.119, Penguin UK
“We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.”
“In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.”
“Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.”
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

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