"She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams."

-- Michael Ondaatje

#Dream Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Years Quotes

“I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.”
“Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!”
“My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.”
“I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.”
“The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.”

Source : Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown
“Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.”
“The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.”

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