“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
Source: "Why Are They Laughing In Those Cages?", in Travels in Hyperreality : Essays (1986), Ch. III : The Gods of the Underworld, p. 122
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
This quote is itself quoting Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman in the film Grey Owl (1999)
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“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”
Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 19 (p. 123)