"Iâ€™ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I donâ€™t. Iâ€™m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and thatâ€™s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days"

-- Jim Butcher

#Fall Quotes #Play Quotes #Magic Quotes

“From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1966). “Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964”, Vintage
“To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.18, Read Books Ltd
“Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.”
“In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.”
“The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.”
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
“Home is where people love you, don't forget that.”
“Depression is sadness gone wrong”

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