"Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet"

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Source : Christopher Fowler (2009). “Bryant and May On The Loose: (Bryant & May Book 7)”, p.121, Random House

Christopher Fowler

#Beautiful Quotes #Dream Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.”
“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.”
“And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they werenâ€™t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, itâ€™s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.”
“Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.”
“No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.”
“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.”

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