Quotes to remember

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  1. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    “The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
    ― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle
     
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    “I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”
    ― Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch

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    ''Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.'' - Sylvia Plath
     
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    “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
    ― George Eliot

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    “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
    ― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
     
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    “The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.”
    ― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

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    “It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.”
    ― Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

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    "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."---John Cleese

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    "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
    Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;"--Edgar Allen Poe

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    "When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realise that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being." - Winona Ryder

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    “I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
    ― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine
     
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    “Blood is really warm,
    it's like drinking hot chocolate
    but with more screaming.”
    ― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

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    “The best person you can be is the person you are when you are alone on a random Thursday. That’s who you are.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
     
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    “In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
    ― Cynthia Rylant, In November
     
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    “It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
    ― George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
     
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    Seems like should not have made such a balls up

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    “Physicality’s a cage. And a liberation.

    The cells I’ll fill in, they’re magnificent, burgeoning with aliveness! I’m dialed into them like a station on a radio transmitting constantly. First faint and distant, but growing, amassing, volumizing the very idea of a person this body aims to harbor. Glowing like the universe, always growing. Each new cell increases my momentum, tightening the tether.”
    ― Laurie Perez, The Power of Amie Martine
     
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    “Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness”
    ― Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents

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    “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck

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    “To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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