“Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.” DreamEyeMemoriesSurfaceRingsConfusionAwakeRisingFloatingTrout Book:Crossing to Safety Source: Crossing to Safety
“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.” IfsShouldFirstsHas BeensBookShowsDreamHellComedyMirrorsBoundsConfusionRememberedMovieRegionsPeculiarOur DreamsAccuracyCaricaturesHoping For The Best Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.” WellsStoriesDreamMightHavensLongingPassionateConvictionConfusionTheme Author:Marion Dane Bauer
“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.” MindMayCountryDreamShadowEternityEdgesConfusionNervesRefugeSanctuaryCowardlyActual Life Book:Fantastic Traveller Source: Fantastic Traveller