"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."

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Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin

Shirley Jackson

#Life Quotes #Reality Quotes #Long Quotes

“I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.”
“A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.”
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
“Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.”
“Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?”
“To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.”

Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.”
“There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”

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