"Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Fall Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.”
“Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.”
“There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.”
“Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.”
“We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies”
“If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (1991). “Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.196, Llewellyn Worldwide
“I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy”
“But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.”

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