Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Apr 10, 2026 03:36 PM

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" (Fahrenheit 451)

**Magical Realist** · Apr 13, 2026 06:34 PM

“The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.”--Christopher Hitchens

**Magical Realist** · Apr 15, 2026 06:29 AM

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 16, 2026 05:51 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”― Joan Didion

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 17, 2026 06:21 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
― Mary Oliver

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 18, 2026 05:09 PM by Magical Realist.)

“There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
― Bill Hicks

**Syne** · Apr 18, 2026 09:32 PM

(Apr 18, 2026 04:40 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: “There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
― Bill Hicks

I don't use either. Productive and free.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 19, 2026 02:24 AM by Magical Realist.)

I have a forgone the hipsterish 10 dollar cup of Starbucks now for the 2 buck XL cup of fresh brewed coffee at 7-11. Nothing like it. It is a little exciting jaunt to start my day with.'
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**Magical Realist** · Apr 23, 2026 05:03 PM

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking.

Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.

Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.”
― C.G. Jung

**Magical Realist** · Apr 23, 2026 07:03 PM

“Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…”― Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams