"The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own."

-- Charles de Lint

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“Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.”
“Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.”
“I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.
“If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?”
“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.
“Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.”
“Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.”

Source : Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). “Poems”
“The rock still has something to teach me.”

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