“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“So: I knew dream life. In fact, in a way, I was actually comfortable with it. Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world---just no more confusing than any other.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
Alex Garland
Born place: in London, England, The United Kingdom
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“But is it an honest living?" Alec persisted, clinging to his last shred of resolve.
"Most of those who employ me are great lords or nobles."
"It sounds like a pretty dangerous line of work," Alec remarked, aware that once again Seregil had side-stepped the question.
"That's the spice of it, though," cried Seregil. "And you can end up rich!"
"Or on the end of a rope?"
Seregil chuckled. "Have it your way.”
― quote from Luck in the Shadows
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”
― Dan Brown, quote from Origin
“In fatto di musica, tutti i suoi gesti erano competenti e armoniosi, che stesse impeciando l’archetto, sostituendo le corde o sistemando la stanza per l’arrivo dei tre compagni del quartetto d’archi che era la sua passione. Era Florence la leader indiscussa del gruppo, e a lei spettava sempre l’ultima parola nelle numerose dispute musicali che si presentavano. In tutti gli altri ambiti della vita, in compenso, era di una goffaggine e di un’insicurezza da lasciare allibiti, un continuo inciampare, far cadere oggetti, andare a sbattere. Le stesse dita capaci di un raddoppio su una partita di Bach si rivelavano altrettanto perfette nel rovesciare intere tazze di tè su tovaglie di lino, o bicchieri di vetro su pavimenti di marmo. Se si sentiva osservata incespicava: confidò a Edward che andare incontro a un amico da una certa distanza era per lei un supplizio. E ogni ansia e momento di timidezza la portavano a sollevare in continuazione la mano verso la fronte per scostare immaginarie ciocche di capelli in un gesto delicato e nervoso che perdurava ben oltre la scomparsa del motivo che l’aveva scatenato.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from On Chesil Beach
“Sometimes good people have to do bad things. It’s nothing personal. It’s just life,”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Raw
“The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.”
― Cory Doctorow, quote from Little Brother
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