Dot Dunn

“He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.”
― James Joyce

“if words lie face down there’s a chance they might change during the night; you may suddenly come to see them with a new eye, perhaps with a rapid flash of insight. It is conceivable.”
― Tove Jansson, A Winter Book: Selected Stories

“What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?”
― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist