Quotes About Thought

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REFLECTING ON THE MEANING

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

some things you don't need to hear in order to hear. The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.

he laughs but it's a laugh he has to think about first.

Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head.

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought.

Plus/minus Positive/negative 1/0 I can/ I can't I will/ I won't You are/You aren't I said/I thought I said I will/I thought I can't I thought I can/I said You won't

Whats up? he asked. Up, I thought. This, I said, looking down at the photo in my hand. Down, I thought.

Thinking is your favorite thing to do, isn't it? Sometimes it's endearing but sometimes it's completely exhausting.

solipsistic, adj. Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.

He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.

Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought.

Even if I had not been thinking about it, for that matter, certainly I would have had to begin to do so when I typed those last few sentences.

Even those on the executive supporting his right to take office thought his behaviour "senseless, futile and provocative.

There is no such thing as forgetting," he murmured.

One of the laws of consciousness is: We are only subject to a negative thought or belief if we consciously say that it applies to us. We are free to choose not to buy into a negative belief system.

if you think too hard about anything it's bound to take the fun out of it.

Roger Donald called from Little Brown to say that he would like to negotiate a two-book deal. To celebrate, I bought a denim shirt, and thought it amazing how quickly one's life can change. I never thought I'd want a denim shirt.

The motor of fiction is narrative. The motor of essay is thought. The default of fiction is storytelling. The default of essay is memoir. Fiction: no ideas but in things. (Serious) essay (what I want): not the thing itself but ideas about the thing.

And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. At

a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.