"Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job."

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Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Coma”, p.135, Penguin

Alex Garland

#Dream Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Memories Quotes

“Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.”
“That's progress-when we prove things wrong.”
“I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!”
“Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.”
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
“A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.”
“A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.”
“The only â€˜realisticâ€™ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (â€˜human rights,â€™ â€˜democracyâ€™), respect for which would prevent us from â€˜resignifyingâ€™ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice â€¦ if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!”

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