I Can Still Remember The Miraculous Feeling

It Struck Me As I Listened To Those Two Men That A Truer Nomination (name) For Our Species Than Homo Sapiens Might Be Homo Narrans, The Storytelling Person. What Differentiates Us From Animals Is The Fact That We Can Listen To Other People’s Dreams, Fears, Joys, Sorrows, Desires And Defeats–and They In Turn Can Listen To Ours.

To Grow Up Is To Wonder About Things; To Be Grown Up Is To Slowly Forget The Things You Wondered About As A Child.

Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.

‎not Having Time For A Person, Not Being Able To Sit In Silence Together With Somebody, That's The Same As Rejecting Them, As Being Scornful About Them.

Poverty Always Looks The Same, No Matter Where You Come Across It. The Rich Can Always Express Their Opulence By Varying Their Lives. Different Houses, Clothes, Cars. Or Thoughts, Dreams. But For The Poor There Is Nothing But Compulsory Grayness, The Only Form Of Expression Available To Poverty.