"They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)"

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Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

Stephen Dobyns

#Ignorance Quotes #Sleep Quotes #World Quotes

“Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!”
“For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.”
“There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.”
“The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.”
“My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver.”

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“I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.”
“You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.”

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