Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · May 3, 2026 06:45 PM

“Everything I learned about life or relationships, I learned at the movies. Movies that caused me pain or joy of such intensity that I can barely breathe, are the ones I love the most.” – Nan Goldin, photographer

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 6, 2026 06:15 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein

**Magical Realist** · May 7, 2026 04:56 PM

“Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.”
― Henry Miller

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 8, 2026 08:29 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.”-- Hunter S. Thompson

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**Magical Realist** · May 12, 2026 05:15 PM

“They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.”― E.J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others

**Magical Realist** · May 12, 2026 10:43 PM

**Magical Realist** · May 13, 2026 03:39 PM

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."---Tom Clancy

**Magical Realist** · May 13, 2026 04:42 PM

“A doctor, lawyer, accountant, dentist, or pharmacist will go through years of training and then do the same thing over and over again in slightly different variations. Much of the training is to socialize us into people who can sit still for long periods and behave and operate consistently and reliably....Basically, we are being trained and prepped to become more like machines. But we'll never be as good as the real thing.”― Andrew Yang

**Magical Realist** · Yesterday 12:32 AM

"Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort."--Helene Cixous