"Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you."

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Source : Jeff Guinn (2006). “The Autobiography of Santa Claus”, p.43, Penguin

Jeff Guinn

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“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.”
“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.”
“Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.”
“Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.”
“The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.”
“Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. Itâ€™s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . Itâ€™s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some donâ€™t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some donâ€™t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and youâ€™ll never get to read the same book twice.”
“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”
“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.”

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