Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 16, 2025 11:57 PM by Magical Realist.)

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 17, 2025 01:11 AM by Magical Realist.)

“The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

"Life is like riding an elevator. It has a lot of ups and downs, and someone is always pushing your buttons. Sometimes you get the shaft, but what really bothers you are the jerks."--anonymous

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."--David Hilbert

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 17, 2025 11:23 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.”
― Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 18, 2025 04:46 AM by Magical Realist.)

Television--a machine that creates the continuous illusion that you are not sitting in a chair in your living room just staring at a machine.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 18, 2025 06:52 PM by Magical Realist.)

“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”
― Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 19, 2025 08:30 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

**C C** · (This post was last modified: Jan 20, 2025 09:08 PM by C C.)

BILLIONS (season 7, episode 11) - "Axe Global":

Michael Prince is too smooth. Too confident. He's built different. It's like he ate the Great Man Theory and asked for seconds.

[CHUCKLES] Well, no argument there. But I'm not seeing enough evidence your guy is that different. Which is why I am here.

And I am grateful you are, Governor.

I don't need gratitude. I need clarity.

Clarity. Okay.

Well, Bobby Axelrod doesn't lie to himself. If he says he's gonna do something monstrous, that's what he does.

And that's what he is. A self-aware monster.

If he says we can get you to the White House, it's not to serve his ego. It is simply the truth. An honest cocky son of a bitch.

And there's your difference. Axe has ego, and doesn't pretend otherwise.

[Michael] Prince wants you to believe he is the benevolent, humble servant of the greater good. A selfless billionaire.

If success in politics is the ability to seem sincere when no sincerity actually exists, then Prince is the ultimate politician.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 20, 2025 10:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

“There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.”
― Iris Murdoch

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Yesterday 09:46 PM by Magical Realist.)

"I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing."----Amy Sedaris