"Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains."

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Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.68, Vintage

Peter Heller

#Night Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.”
“The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will beâ€”the greater its emotional power and poetic reality â€¦”

Source : "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.
“Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.”
“In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection”
“The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.”
“Being independent gives me freedom to creatively be great. Standing on your own doesn't always get major exposure or support, but because I make music from a pure place, I am more so excited and relieved that it actually gets out into the universe.”
“I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.”

Source : Dee Snider (2013). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.341, Simon and Schuster
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.”

Source : David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.6, Penguin UK

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