"Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format."

-- Sara Maitland

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“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

Source : M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.448, Spectra
“A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.”
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”
“As a chef Iâ€™m not your dietitian or your ethicist, Iâ€™m in the pleasure business.”
“I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.”
“what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.”
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
“I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.”

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