"I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Book Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Age Quotes

“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”
“We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.”

Source : Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan
“To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going.”
“Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.”
“Most of the time when something goes badâ€”a marriage, a war, a run of good luckâ€”you donâ€™t know it. Itâ€™s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep goingâ€”talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimesâ€”except no announcer interrupts to say â€˜Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyoteâ€™ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.”
“I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.”
“The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.”
“External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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