“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.”
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
“Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“Every moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.”
― Look Homeward, Angel
― Look Homeward, Angel
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