“red hair is caused by sugar and lust.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free.
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.”
― Bruiser
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.”
― Bruiser
“There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. ”
― The Books of Magic
― The Books of Magic
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