"Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas."

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Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.48, The Overlook Press

Philip Carr-Gomm

#Ideas Quotes #Magic Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.”
“Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed with only two issues: abortion rights and lesbian rights.”
“Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.”
“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.
“The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having...”
“I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!”
“Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.”

Source : Nigel Slater (2005). “Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger”, p.11, Penguin
“I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up”

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