"Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."

-- Mitch Albom

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Half Quotes

“I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.”
“When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.”
“BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.”
“I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.”
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.”
“They are all my favourites. All of them.”
“Everyday I'm Hustlin'.”

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