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“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.”

Ifs Want Wells Mean Long Light Humanity Born Sleep Darkness Walking Taste Long Time Embrace Finals Awakening Divinity

Author:Ram Dass

“Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.”

Sleep Sweet Taste Bed Rose Repentance Repent Thorns Sour Bed Of Roses

Book:Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author

Source: Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author

“And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wiresand the night sky the color of stockings. I stuck out my tongue to taste the skybut could not taste. I inhaled deeplybut could not smell. I used to look to the sky for comfortand now there was nothing, not even a seam, and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground. And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep and the Sorrowful Mother swinging her empty dipper in the darkness, the Sorrowful Mother picking her way through the stars over my roof. And I knew I was nowhere and if I ever took my hands from my ears I would fall.”

Looks Used Night House Stars Sleep Company Saws Sky Color Taste Down And Smell Tongue Stuck Counting Night Sky Satellites Stockings

Author:Matthew Rohrer

“Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.”

People Ifs Want Trying Believe Wells Long Jobs Life Is Night Actors Sleep Taste Directors Agree Don't Believe Boring Too Short Life Is Too Short Not Happy

Author:Martin Freeman

“Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing”

“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”

Men Sleep Relationship Particular Taste Justify

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”

Inspirational Water Nature Sleep Inspiring Sky Cold Taste Flow Hot Blue Embrace Honey Delicious

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.”

Stills Difficult Sleep Taste Mouths Wake Up Restful

Book:Looking for Alaska: A Novel

Source: Looking for Alaska: A Novel

“But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.”

Mind Sleep Wind Taste Rain Breathe

Book:Archangel's Kiss

Source: Archangel's Kiss

“The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel