"If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near."

#Death Quotes #Dying Quotes #Near Death Quotes

“The mind can go either direction under stressâ€”toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.”
“Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”
“I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.”
“The earth rests, and remembers.”
“When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or told from my perspective.”
“My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.”
“Learn, compare, collect the facts!”

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