"Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function."

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Source : Michael Ruhlman (2005). “House: A Memoir”, Viking Press

Michael Ruhlman

#Dream Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.”
“I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.”
“For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.”
“I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[â€¦]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.”
“I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.”
“The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.”

Source : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Jul 15, 2015
“Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.”
“Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.”

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