"Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial."

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Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

Jamy Ian Swiss

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“You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.”
“At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.”
“By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.”

Source : Ernest Vincent Wright (2015). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E””, p.129, BoD – Books on Demand
“No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.”
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.125, Penguin
“If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.”
“Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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