“How strange it was to be inside a machine again! All his life he’d been inside machines, whether he realised it or not. Modern houses were machines. Shopping centres were machines. Schools. Cars. Trains. Cities. They were all sophisticated technological constructs, wired up with lights and motors. You switched them on, and didn’t spare them a thought while they pampered you with unnatural services.” ― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” -- Julio Cortazar Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.” ― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts.” ― Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.” ― Quentin Crisp Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” ― Peggy Toney Horton Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer."--Wittgenstein
“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” ― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Soon MR...October will be upon us, and you know what that means. Ghost stories. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"All the qualities of magic reside in women. This is why the fearful suppress them. This is why the wise follow them."--Tennessee Williams. #FolliesOfGod. (Tenn with Anna Magnani) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Pablo Picasso on Creativity, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” https://creativityclasses.com/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
