"Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities."

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Tom Hodgkinson

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes

“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
“It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.”

Source : Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House
“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”
“Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time,”

Source : "What Stella McCartney really said about women, aggression and attractiveness" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2014.
“Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.”
“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”
“Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.”

Source : Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.183

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