"I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Magic Quotes

“And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?”
“In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.”
“The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.”
“I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.”
“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”

Source : "'Greening of America' Author To Present Lecture Series". Yale Bulletin and Calendar, Volume 29, No. 4, archives.news.yale.edu. September 29, 2000.
“Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.”
“When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black people before, that's a dramatic change. I'm not sure how much the people in the north are acknowledging that this is a permanent phenomenon, that it is going to change the social fabric.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.”

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