"Premie'Â re approximation: j'eÂ cris pour deÂ truire, en les deÂ crivant avec preÂ cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie eÂ veilleÂ e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life."

-- Alain Robbe-Grillet

#Writing Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Waking Life Quotes

“I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.”
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
“I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.”
“Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.”

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“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”
“I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.”
“I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.”

Source : Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.92, Hachette UK

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