"Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present."

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Dennis Lehane

#Past Quotes #Order Quotes #Waking Quotes

“It's too bad our society isn't further along.”
“Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.”
“A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.”

Source : FaceBook post by Etta James from Sep 21, 2013
“It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.”
“The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.”

Source : "Designer Profile: John Varvatos's Expanded Stage". www.esquire.com. May 31, 2012.
“We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones,”

Source : "Download your own robot scientist" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 3, 2009.
“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
“Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.”

Source : Rare "Selena Live" Interview, 1993.

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