"That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madnessâ€¦ He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes."

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Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Aug 19, 2015

Steven Millhauser

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Book Quotes

“We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.”

Source : alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”
“Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.”
“I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris
“My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.”
“It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.”
“Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.”
“Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.”

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