Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Sep 15, 2020 06:42 PM

"The world is made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk.”
― Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

**Magical Realist** · Sep 16, 2020 07:26 PM

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

**Magical Realist** · Sep 18, 2020 08:54 PM

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
― Sir Francis Bacon

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 19, 2020 08:34 AM by Magical Realist.)

“What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”----Henry James

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 19, 2020 08:36 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

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**confused2** · Sep 20, 2020 01:12 AM

Sharon>How do you know you can trust me?
Adama>I don't. That's what trust is.

**Syne** · Sep 20, 2020 03:56 AM

(Sep 20, 2020 01:12 AM)confused2 Wrote: Sharon>How do you know you can trust me?
Adama>I don't. That's what trust is.

I never bother reading this thread, but I happen to just now and appreciate the BSG.

**Magical Realist** · Sep 20, 2020 03:26 PM

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

**Magical Realist** · Sep 20, 2020 04:29 PM

“It is through serendipitous encounters with objects and strangers that the world speaks to us but we have to be listening. By learning to be alert for clues, one is suddenly caught up in an exciting inner adventure.”
― Stephanie Rosenbloom, Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 22, 2020 10:36 PM by Magical Realist.)

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

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