"I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep."

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Source : Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.11, Algonquin Books

Kaye Gibbons

#Reading Quotes #Fall Quotes #Night Quotes

“A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.”

Source : "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.
“The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.”
“I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.”
“Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.”
“The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.”
“Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.”

Source : "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.
“Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.”
“When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.”

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