"Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Men Quotes

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.”

Source : J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann
“I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.”

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.211, Macmillan
“In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012
“The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.”
“To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.”
“To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
“There is no neutral ground when it comes to the tolerance question. Everybody has a point of view she thinks is right, and everybody passes judgment at some point or another. The Christian gets pigeonholed as the judgmental one, but everyone else is judging, too, even people who consider themselves relativists.”

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