"Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes."

-- Helen Oyeyemi

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“From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.”
“If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.”
“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
“A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.”

Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press
“It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.”
“With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.”
“because if you canâ€™t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

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