"Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because itâ€™s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that."

-- Herta Muller

#Home Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Long Quotes

“The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.”
“In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.”
“In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”
“War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.”
“Within a moment there isÂ monumental potential.Â That is the mystery of a moment.Â It isÂ small enough to ignoreÂ andÂ big enough to change your lifeÂ forever”
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”
“You should get a glass stomach. That way you won't have to worry about pulling your head out of your ass!”
“Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”

Source : Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.

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