"Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping."

-- Joe Meno

#Sleep Quotes #Simple Quotes #Worry Quotes

“If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.”
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me itÂ´s just the contrary. Often itÂ´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didnÂ´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
“... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2005). “Penelope's Progress”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.”
“I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”
“Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.”

Source : Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.223, Ravenio Books
“Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Noah Cross". "Chinatown", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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