David Bottoms Quotes

• We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

  David Bottoms

  Running, New Year, Stars

  David Bottoms (1980). “Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump”, William Morrow &Company

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• Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.

  David Bottoms

  Fall, Sleep, Self

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