The Standover Man
One night, after my usual nightmare, a shadow stood above me. She said, "Tell me what you dream of." So I did.
In return, she explained what her own dreams were made of.
Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift to me.
It makes me understand that the best standover man I have ever known is not a man at all...
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Jack: All human beings have a need to hear stories, and a pretentious fraud I knew in school even used to say that stories are actually ‘as necessary as food’. I hated that. But do you know, it’s true? If people don’t dream at night, they go insane, and by day, they need stories — it’s just that simple.
We use the word respect for something a woman shows a man but often not for something a man shows a woman.
Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage.”
When men say it, it is usually about something they should not be doing anyway. Something they say to their friends in a fondly exasperated way, something that ultimately proves to them their masculinity—“Oh, my wife said I can’t go to clubs every night, so now, for peace in my marriage, I go only on weekends.”
When women say “I did it for peace in my marriage,” it is usually because they have given up a job, a career goal, a dream.
"If you were my age, I’d pretend I was happy, I’d pretend I loved my career, your career, our life, but I’d be faking it as I’ve been faking it with everyone I’ve known. My problem is discovering what not faking is—and this is difficult and scary for me, because my bearings are always pitched to who I ought to be, not to who I am, to what I should have, not to what I never knew I craved, to life as I found it, not to the life I’ve let myself think was only a dream. You’re oxygen to me, and I’ve been living off methane.”
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Kitapta ABBA'nın 'I Have A Dream' şarkısı geçiyor..
"I have a dream, a song to sing,
To help me cope with anything..."
(benim de bir düşüm var ve söylemek istediğim bir şarkım, bana güç veren, iyi okumalar... )
Elma
‘I thought I was awake, I was acting like I was awake, but I was asleep. I have a sleeping problem.’
‘So are you awake now? Or am I a dream?’
‘It’s hard to tell.’
Sayfa 151
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of your skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King
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Bir Hayalim Var
Martin Luther King...
Irksal eşitlik ve siyah vatandaşların eşit vatandaşlık hakları için yaptığı eylemler ve yürüyüşlerle 1964 yılında Amerika'da Yurttaş Hakları Kanunu'nun çıkmasını sağlamış Afro-Amerikalı bir siyahi hareket lideri.
Şiddet içermeyen eylemleri ile ABD'yi boynuna asılan "Zenciler ve köpekler giremez" utancından
Sayfa 21 - Dua yayıncılık
