"Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)"

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John Clute

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes

“For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.”
“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.”
“I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.”
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
“When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.”

Source : "Ten Questions for Bright Star's Jane Campion: 'I've Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.
“Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
“Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?”
“A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.”

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