"How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors"

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Source : Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bradford Morrow

#Dream Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes

“It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.”
“To the worker, God himself lends aid.”
“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
“I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.”
“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”
“Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?”

Source : Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.139, Hachette UK
“I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.”

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