"If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Dream Quotes #Simple Quotes #People Quotes

“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”
“It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have half a party. That's exactly what progressives are upset about.”
“True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
“You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.”
“The Eagle has landed.”
“If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.”
“Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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