"Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living."

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Fanny Fern

#Blessed Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Young Quotes

“How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.”
“The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.”
“But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.”
“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

Source : FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 05, 2012
“Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.”
“The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.”
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.”
“You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean”

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