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Jan Golembiewski
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April 2016
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Magic
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2018
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6 editions
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The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu
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2013
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First review
I’ve just popped my cherry with my first commercially published book - and incredibly, It’s been reviewed:
“Magic is the most incredible true story you are likely to read in a very long time.” Erich Mayer
“Magic is the most incredible true story you are likely to read in a very long time.” Erich Mayer
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“I welcome injustice, because injustice gives me something to strive for. We need the darkness, for it allows the light to shine. God’s greatest gift to mankind is Satan, because evil gives us something to strive against.”
― Magic
― Magic
“Sometimes we’re persuaded to relinquish control, and when this happens, time becomes more synchronic and coincidence more profound. It’s the same cosmic force, but without so many restrictions. This is when guardian angels can roll up their sleeves to say, ‘Now we’ve got food and shelter done, let’s get to work!”
― Magic
― Magic
“Immigration detainees are the ghosts of real prisoners, being punished in advance for crimes that will demand a life sentence.”
― Magic
― Magic
“The extraordinary thing about having absolute conviction that you’re doing the right thing is that you’ll do it – whatever that may be, no matter how difficult, dangerous or improbable.”
― Magic
― Magic
“...Designers are generally unaware of the effects that their inventions have on the brain, and therefore take no responsibility of this role is deeply worrying. The world of design is like a highway, where each and every driver is asleep at the wheel.”
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“Destiny is surely propelled by desires. Desires push and pull you to make big moves and landslide changes, but they don’t propel you to the people who will help shape those desires. The street directions of our life’s path are difficult to read. They aren’t intuitive... they’re the product of the minutiae of our daily lives: accidental meetings and chances that happen while you’re getting fed or finding shelter. And on the road, that means the influence of complete strangers.”
― Magic
― Magic
“Children love both magic and science for the same reason both are enablers. Both offer power and solutions to impossible problems. But then something shifts when people discover the instability magic brings to existence. It shatters the world that’s been built on predictability and logic. Suddenly the material, the countable, the definable is pulled from underfoot by the capricious, slippery and ego-centric nature of the mind. In that respect it’s the opposite of science, which remains dispassionate and impartial to the observer, predictable no matter what. The laws of motion won’t change because the scientist gets a speeding fine.”
― Magic
― Magic
“You’ve got a choice: ...you can just give in. You can give your jailers what they want. Switch off another light and in the ocean of darkness bow your head and cry. You can despair for your kids, and they can despair for you. But what does this choice give you? Have you any great new happiness now? What does your unhappiness give to your children? Why did you make this choice? Why did you walk into the trap of captivity?”
― Magic
― Magic
