"Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission."

-- Carolyn Chute

#Dream Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Writing Quotes

“True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.”
“I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy Spirit, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.”
“There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.”
“The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.”
“There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.”
“it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.”
“People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.”
“You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.”

Source : "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

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