Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Feb 23, 2019 09:56 AM

“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”
― Frank Zappa

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 23, 2019 07:49 PM by Magical Realist.)

“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
― Terence McKenna

**Leigha** · Feb 24, 2019 07:01 AM

''We have not lost our way. Our way has lost us.'' --Gaelic proverb

**Magical Realist** · Feb 24, 2019 10:34 AM

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”
― Susan Sontag, The Benefactor

**Magical Realist** · Feb 25, 2019 08:25 PM

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky

**Magical Realist** · Feb 27, 2019 03:17 AM

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
― Frank Zappa

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 27, 2019 07:03 PM by Magical Realist.)

“In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.”
― William Stafford

**Magical Realist** · Feb 28, 2019 10:36 PM

"Late Night Energy--the surge of energy you feel at midnight when you remember you can sleep in tomorrow morning".. MR

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 2, 2019 06:06 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

**Magical Realist** · Mar 2, 2019 08:44 PM

“The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.”
― Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game