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“Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination.”
Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (2006). “Niels Lyhne”, p.60, Penguin
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“Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.”
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“Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.”
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“Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us with compassionate eyes, and we shall be dear to Him, and He will fall on our neck running and embrace us and kiss us with His Holy Love. He will not reproach us, and He will no longer remember our sins and iniquities, and all the holy angles and all His elect will begin to rejoice over us.”
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“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.”
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“When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;”
Source : 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' (1871)
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“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press
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“The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.”
