Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Jul 11, 2017 06:06 PM

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

**Magical Realist** · Jul 18, 2017 06:33 PM

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2017 01:06 PM by Magical Realist.)

"The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere else but within living material, are themselves already enormously complex. They execute a dance of exquisite fidelity, orchestrated with breathtaking precision. Vastly more elaborate than the most complicated ballet, the dance of life encompasses countless molecular performers in synergetic coordination. Yet this is a dance with no sign of a choreographer. No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.”
― Paul Davies, The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2017 01:12 PM by Magical Realist.)

“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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**Magical Realist** · Jul 21, 2017 06:30 PM

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
― Henry Miller

**Secular Sanity** · Jul 24, 2017 04:38 PM

"We may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it."—Claude Shannon

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 24, 2017 11:49 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.”
― Steven Magee, Light Forensics

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 29, 2017 12:02 AM by Magical Realist.)

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 29, 2017 05:17 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

**Magical Realist** · Jul 31, 2017 04:15 PM

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
― Robinson Jeffers