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“After your first day of cycling one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow…”

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source: The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897), 79.

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“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it’s just the contrary.
        Often it’s something you paid no attention to at the time—a vague thought that you didn’t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed—these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”

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source: Doctor Zhivago (New York: Pantheon, 1997), 283.

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“If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same…”

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source: “If,” in The New World Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (New York: Garden City, 1910 ), 167.

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medium: Poetry

via: Maceo Thompson (thanks, Mace!)

“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever.”

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source: This Boy’s Life (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 286.

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“Did anyone ever have a boring dream?”

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source: “Flying Scrolls,” in The Skylark: and Other Poems (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1959), 76.

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“Every one of us lives a life we did not expect to live. We begin with passions and dreams and with the basic conviction that all will turn out for the good, more or less. Some of it does turn out for the good. Most of it, though, is a startling combination of the unexpected and the inconceivable. Every door we walk through introduces us to a strange land, and then we set about seeing if this is a place where we can grow.
        For me, New York City has been the great opened door.”

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source: A New York Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), introduction, xii.

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“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”

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source: “Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.

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medium: poetry

notes: from Mary Karr's Twitter feed

“All the dreams you show up in are not your own.”

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source: “New York is Killing Me,” by Alex Wilkinson, The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, 26–32.

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“The future…seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

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source: “The Wave of the Future,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), 205.

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medium: essay

notes: White wrote this essay in December 1940.

via: Louise Buckley
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