Varjak Dream Quotes & Sayings

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. — John Steinbeck

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross. — Megan Fox

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it. — David Giuntoli

Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition. — Sam Owen

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on. — Eknath Easwaran

A sweet offer . . . yet sweets can be poisoned. — George R R Martin

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — Noam Chomsky

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things — James Connor

Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever. — Rumi

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ... — Alison Lurie

A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination. — Akira Mizuta Lippit

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it. — China Mieville