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“I wish drink did the trick, I really do. People in bars look like they’re having a wonderful time, and people at parties laugh a lot more after drinking. But, like several other women in my family, I don’t tolerate alcohol well, so marijuana is my inebriant of choice.”
― Catherine Hiller, Just Say Yes: a marijuana memoir

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“And won’t the world be better if no one is ever again burnt in the name of God?” I asked. “If there is no more faith in God to make men do that to each other? What is the danger in a secular world where horrors like that don’t happen?”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“May you live in interesting times.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations