“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
Source: Cannery Row
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“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Maxim 338
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
On audiences, Asbury Park NJ Press (13 August 1974).
“When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
James not bothered by those rooting for him to fail, Steve Ginsburg, Reuters, June 13, 2011 http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCATRE75C0T420110613,
James addressing fans after losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals.
“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
Source: A Dish of Orts
Context: A fairytale, a sonata, a gathering storm, a limitless night, seizes you and sweeps you away: do you begin at once to wrestle with it and ask whence its power over you, whither it is carrying you? The law of each is in the mind of its composer; that law makes one man feel this way, another man feel that way. To one the sonata is a world of odour and beauty, to another of soothing only and sweetness. To one, the cloudy rendezvous is a wild dance, with a terror at its heart; to another, a majestic march of heavenly hosts, with Truth in their centre pointing their course, but as yet restraining her voice. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
I will go farther. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. The best Nature does for us is to work in us such moods in which thoughts of high import arise. Does any aspect of Nature wake but one thought? Does she ever suggest only one definite thing? Does she make any two men in the same place at the same moment think the same thing? Is she therefore a failure, because she is not definite? Is it nothing that she rouses the something deeper than the understanding — the power that underlies thoughts? Does she not set feeling, and so thinking at work? Would it be better that she did this after one fashion and not after many fashions? Nature is mood-engendering, thought-provoking: such ought the sonata, such ought the fairytale to be.
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
Sexual Healing.
Song lyrics, Midnight Love (1982)