"Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didnâ€™t keep a hard eye on herself."

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Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Brief History of the Dead”, p.22, Hachette UK

Kevin Brockmeier

#Life Quotes #Dream Quotes #Eye Quotes

“You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.”
“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”
“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
“Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.”

Source : Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing
“Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!”
“There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.”
“The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.”
“What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?”

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