“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“In childhood we inhabit a world of wonderful contrasts that later we often come to see as bizarre and do our best to rearrange, with everything in its 'proper' place. Unusual juxtapositions we label surrealistic. Yet what is surrealism but a second childhood with Freudian overtones which we have to be re-educated to enjoy? -- part of the tragedy of growing up”
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“not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.”
― Skinny Legs and All
― Skinny Legs and All
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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