"I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call."

-- Kazuo Ishiguro

#Eye Quotes #Long Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.”
“Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.”
“The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.”
“You guys (E.L.F.) are all so precious for me. Can't be changed with other things.”
“For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.”

Source : William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde
“Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.”
“Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.”

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