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<<Beth to Jennifer>> A hazelnut. A filbert. October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O
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“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Exceptionally creative people may be naturally prone to vivid dreaming; high dream recall is correlated with habits and personality traits often shared by artists, such as “openness to experience,” “tolerance of ambiguity,” an inclination toward fantasy, and a tendency to daydream. People who remember their dreams every night tend to have an easier time of losing themselves in projects and are likelier to agree with statements like “I am full of ideas” and “I am interested in abstractions.”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
“I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“The dreamer, like the daydreamer, lacks “meta-awareness”; she is ignorant of the state she’s in and succumbs to the illusion that the fictive world is the only one. Tennyson put it well in “The Higher Pantheism”: “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
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