Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Apr 2, 2026 04:03 PM

"When human beings feel cornered, constrained, oppressed, distressed, they turn their eyes to the sky, to the firmament. The act of looking at the starry sky is the prelude to any liberation, any revolution."---Wu Ming

**Magical Realist** · Apr 3, 2026 07:52 PM

“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.” –Alfred Korzybski

**Magical Realist** · Apr 4, 2026 04:46 PM

A label is a name we plaster over someone's face to keep from really knowing them.

**Magical Realist** · Apr 4, 2026 08:23 PM

““I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”— Douglas Adams

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 5, 2026 05:55 PM by Magical Realist.)

"When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public."----Terrence Malick

**Magical Realist** · Apr 6, 2026 12:56 AM

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”― Franz Kafka

**Magical Realist** · Apr 7, 2026 04:38 PM

“Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.”~ Rainer Maria Rilke

**Magical Realist** · Apr 7, 2026 08:31 PM

“It is imagination again which adds the piquant charm of voluptuousness to the tenderness of an amorous heart; which makes tenderness bud in the study of the philosopher and of the dusty pedant, which, in a word, creates scholars as well as orators and poets.”― Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man A Machine

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 8, 2026 03:53 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.”—-Jean Baudrillard

**Magical Realist** · Apr 9, 2026 04:25 PM

“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.”― Kelli Jae Baeli, Too Much World