"Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things."

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Source : Colin Wilson (1971). “The Occult: A History”, Vintage

Colin Wilson

#Wall Quotes #Spring Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”
“When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.”
“I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.”
“The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.”

Source : "Secrets of 'South Park'" by Jake Tapper and Dan Morris, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2006.
“Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.”

Source : "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.
“This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.”
“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”
“The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2011). “The Council of Shadows: A Novel of the Shadowspawn”, p.126, Penguin

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