"I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar."

-- Lydia Davis

#Dream Quotes #Distance Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.”
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”
“He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.”
“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
“There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
“Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.”
“I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.”
“Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.”

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