Shyam Selvadurai famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic
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I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
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