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"Visionaries create dreams out of thin air!"
"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."
"Man's mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen."
"If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished."
"Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things."
"If you want to improve performance and productivity, set a vision that inspires and delights."
"See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large, go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!"
Explore more quotes by Denis Johnson
"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."
"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."
"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
"I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it."
"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
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