"There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past."

-- Paula Fox

#Past Quotes #Reality Quotes #Air Quotes

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”
“Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Jul 15, 2013
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.”
“It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.”
“We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse”
“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.”

Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.
“I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.”
“Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.”

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