"One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror."

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Source : "The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

Jonathan Stroud

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“Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own”
“If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Jan 22, 2014
“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.”

Source : Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”
“Adversity makes men remember God.”

Source : "Was the Governor of Tokyo Right -- Is God Punishing Japan?" by Mark Joseph, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2011.
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”
“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”

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