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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#interview #writing #dreams

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#desire #dreams #fulfillment #dreams

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#children

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. ↗

— Frank Warren

#pith #children

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight ↗

— Elvis Presley

#inspirational #life #music #dreams

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#providence #reality #dreams

I look in­to the star­lit night, And beck­on to a dream Within a world of masks and faces Of all we see and seem. ↗

— L.S. Hartfield

#dreams #edgar-allen-poe #dreams

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#skepticism #superstition #religion

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#synchronicity #dreams

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#literature #reading #dreams