"On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is."

-- Paul Madonna

#Dream Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Being True Quotes

“You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.”
“Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.”
“Itâ€™s so difficult to describe depression to someone whoâ€™s never been there, because itâ€™s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itâ€™s that cold absence of feelingâ€” that really hollowed-out feeling.”
“Germans make nice cars.”
“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.”
“I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.”
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.”

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