William Joyce · 228 pages
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“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.
But stories all...”
“you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.”
“Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!”
“But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.”
“to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
“To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.”
“There is a story told about the sculptor Michelangelo. As he was chiseling the statue David out of a huge marble block, a young boy asked him, “How did you know he was in there?”
“There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?”
“In 1896 the newspaperwoman Nellie Bly asked Susan B. Anthony if she’d ever been in love. Her answer: “Bless you, Nellie, I’ve been in love a thousand times! But I never loved any one so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper.”
“The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.”
“posting will be at the unemployment office.” “I don’t think”
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