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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“Listen to the sound of the earth turning.”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“TIME PAINTING

Make a painting in which the color comes out only under a certain light at a certain time of the day.
Make it a very short time.

1961 summer”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“CLOSET PIECE II

Put one memory into one half of your head.
Shut it off and forget it.
Let the other half of the brain long for it.

1964 spring”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“SWIM

SWIM IN YOUR DREAM AS FAR AS YOU CAN UNTIL YOU FIND AN ISLAND. TELL US RESULTS.

12th day dreamtime”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“A cloud consists of the following substances: colour, music, smell, sleep and water. Sometimes it rains substances other than water, but very few people notice it.”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“PAINTING FOR THE BURIAL

On the night of the full moon, place a canvas in the garden from 1 a.m. till dawn.
When the canvas is dyed thoroughly in rose with the morning light, dismember or fold it and bury.

The ways of burial:

1) Bury it in the garden and place a marker with a number on it.
2) Sell it to the rag man.
3) )Throw it in the garbage.

1961 summer”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“TAPE PIECE II

Room Piece

Take the sound of the room breathing.

1) at dawn
2) in the morning
3) in the afternoon
4) in the evening
5) before dawn

Bottle the smell of the room of that particular hour as well

1963 autumn”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

“How can people sit on a train and not notice each other? How can people resist the urge to connect somehow?”
― Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

“The beauty of God is in the wind, in the movement of the ocean, it is in the eyes of a woman gazing at her lover, pouring the deep red wine of love from her eyes like two crystal cups. There is a God who dances and who loves and who longs to sing of love...And I mean that God is music; all inclusive, benevolent and life-affirming, unashamed human emotion.”
― Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

“There is no threat to you in the paper, or in the pen, there's no threat in your creation, they welcome you.”
― Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred