“That was the evil of Dr. Bertram Waters: the perpetuation of hopeless dreams, compounded by the betrayal of those dreams to make his own a reality.”
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 2 “A New Mann” (p. 99).
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Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
Address on receiving the Nehru Award (10 January 1977), published in Virginia Woolf Quarterly (1977), Vol. 3, p. 11; also quoted in The Signs of Language Revisited : An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima (2000) edited by Karen Emmorey and Harlan L. Lane, p. 330; the last sentence is Inscribed in metallic lettering at the entrance of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
“For hopeless love is but a dream and shade.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.
Canto XXV, stanza 49 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Sally Wen Mao Chinese-born American poet
On her poem “Yume-Miru Kikai” in “41.2 Feature: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao” https://bwr.ua.edu/an-interview-with-poet-sally-wen-mao-from-issue-41-2/ in Black Warrior Review (2015 Mar 2)
“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 195
