Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that’s all fake heart and no brain is what’s commonly called a “politician, ” and must...
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Unknown
I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you...
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Dora J. Arod
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help...
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Tom Hiddleston
I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
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Michael Summers
I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.
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Nicole McKay
More Quotes By Matthew Pearl
Books do pretend. ..but squeezed in between is even more that is true–without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish....
It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
