"Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight."

-- Tahir Shah

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“I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.”
“Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.”
“I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”
“People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.26, Vintage
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“How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing”
“It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing....”
“My ideas for the future? To take over the world.”

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