Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 12, 2023 09:55 PM by Magical Realist.)

“...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 15, 2023 12:41 AM by Magical Realist.)

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 15, 2023 11:34 PM by Magical Realist.)

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”
― Henry Miller

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 16, 2023 12:45 AM by Magical Realist.)

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
― Rumi

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 16, 2023 07:52 PM by Magical Realist.)

"You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time."---Bill Murray

**Magical Realist** · Dec 17, 2023 07:44 PM

“At the clinic, they fed us pills like they were biscuits. Those pills made the tongue loose in my head, my left arm numb from the elbow down. Sometimes the world would smoulder at the edges. Patients came and went, people from every kind of background but all with one thing in common: no longer capable of contributing to society, they needed to be kept out of sight: losers, loners, dreamers, freaks; God forbid they ever make it onto a TV screen.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs

**Magical Realist** · Dec 18, 2023 07:36 PM

“The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.”
― Stephen King, It

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 19, 2023 07:36 PM by Magical Realist.)

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

**Magical Realist** · Dec 19, 2023 09:30 PM

"Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion."----Ray Kurzweil

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 20, 2023 06:08 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth