"I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse."

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Justin Cronin

#Wall Quotes #War Quotes #Fall Quotes

“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.
“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.”
“Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.”
“Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.”
“Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.”

Source : "Labour critics blame Balls and Alexander" by Jo Revill, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.
“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity”
“I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.”
“I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.”

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