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    “Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn”
    ― Alan Richardson
    tags: ancient-magicks-for-a-new-age
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
    tags: complexity, compromise, conversation, creativity, diversity, left, middle, right
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #5
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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  • #7
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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  • #8
    Willa Cather
    “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
    ― Willa Cather
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  • #9
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Norman Mailer
    “Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: humor, writing
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  • #11
    C. Gockel
    “The most common way people give up their power is by believing they have none.”
    ― C. Gockel, Gods and Mortals: Thirteen Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Novels
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  • #12
    Philip Carr-Gomm
    “The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children”
    ― Philip Carr-Gomm
    tags: ancestors, future, history, legacy
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  • #13
    Philip Carr-Gomm
    “Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.”
    ― Philip Carr-Gomm, The Book of English Magic
    tags: england, magic, magick
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  • #14
    Lon Milo DuQuette
    “Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.”
    ― Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life With the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
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    Lon Milo DuQuette
    “If we can’t wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.”
    ― Lon Milo DuQuette, The Key to Solomon's Key: Secrets of Magic and Masonry
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  • #16
    Lon Milo DuQuette
    “The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: “Inflame thyself in praying.” —ALEISTER CROWLEY38”
    ― Lon Milo DuQuette, Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Mr. John Dee and Edward Kelley
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  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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    Stephen R. Donaldson
    “It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.”
    ― Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane
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    Stephen R. Donaldson
    “Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.”
    ― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Illearth War
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  • #23
    William Morris
    “History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”
    ― William Morris
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  • #24
    Robin Hobb
    “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
    tags: truth
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    Joe Haldeman
    “Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
    ― Joe Haldeman
    tags: adultery, writing
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  • #26
    Chris Matakas
    “If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: mastery, mastery-of-oneself
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    Ramez Naam
    “The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
    ― Ramez Naam, Crux
    tags: burn, burning, child, children, corals, death, die, economics, economy, environment, environmental, environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, forest, forests, globalism, globalization, humanity, mind, mind-power, nationalism, politics, poor, population, population-control, population-explosion, population-growth, poverty, problem, problems, rich, scarcity, society, starvation, struggle, tipping-point, western-civilization
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  • #28
    Jamie Thomson
    “People think copywriters are obsessed with words.
    This isn't correct.
    The word should be 'infatuated' - it fits the context better.”
    ― Jamie Thomson
    tags: copywriting
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  • #29
    Morgan Llywelyn
    “The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool.
    We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.”
    ― Morgan Llywelyn, Druids
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    Stephen R. Donaldson
    “We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.”
    ― Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane
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  • #31
    P.D. Ouspensky
    “Whatever work a man may be doing, it is enough for him to try to do each action deliberately, with his mind, following every movement, and he will see that the quality of his work will change immediately.”
    ― P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
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