"The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Dream Quotes #People Quotes #Vision Quotes

“There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.”
“There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.”

Source : "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.
“Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.”
“Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

Source : "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 2, 2006.
“Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.”
“Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2015). “The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series”, p.182, Macmillan
“London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.”
“In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.”

Source : William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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