"Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Becoming Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Staring Quotes

“It helps me chill out and focus.”
“Ive been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.”
“In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.”
“I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.”
“Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.”
“I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, donâ€™t understand very much about what they doâ€”not why it works when itâ€™s good, not why it doesnâ€™t when itâ€™s bad.”
“It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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