Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Apr 22, 2018 06:36 PM

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 24, 2018 06:28 PM by Magical Realist.)

Just because something is old doesn't mean it's great. I'm sorry, but Scooby Doo was a crap cartoon when it first aired, and it's a crap cartoon now.

**Magical Realist** · Apr 25, 2018 04:27 PM

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 26, 2018 06:11 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

**elte** · Apr 26, 2018 09:49 PM

"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
--Scrooge

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 27, 2018 03:20 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I must pack my short life full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”
― Everett Ruess, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

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**Magical Realist** · Apr 28, 2018 02:48 PM

“Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting. I (and that slenderest word is too gross for the rare thing I was then) walked forever through reachless oblivion, in the mood of one smelling night-blooming flowers, and suddenly—My ravishers left their traces in me, male and female, and over the months I rounded, grew heavy, until the scandal could no longer be concealed and oblivion expelled me. But this I have in common with all my kind. By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. So they seal the door against our returning.”
— Marilynne Robinson. From “Housekeeping” (1980).

**Magical Realist** · Apr 29, 2018 04:03 PM

“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

**Magical Realist** · Apr 30, 2018 03:21 PM

**Magical Realist** · May 1, 2018 05:15 PM

"You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru