"Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up."

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

#Men Quotes #Trying Quotes #Half Quotes

“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”

Source : Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.52, Indiana University Press
“I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.”
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
“I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.”
“What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.”
“A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?”
“Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.”
“May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”

Source : Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.267, Random House

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