#magi

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#ecology #feels #i #isolated #landed

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#act #after #away #getting #joyce

I can't imagine living and not running. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#imagine #imagine living #living #running

You can't magic yourself back 10 years. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#magic #years #you #yourself

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement. ↗

— David Remnick

#change #deeper #degrees #enormous #enough

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. ↗

— Cardinal De Retz

#even #foolish #minister #more #say

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. ↗

— Sean Parker

#becoming #cusp #delusion #every #i

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#creates #disposes #everything #happiness #imagination

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#alienated #conscious #divorced #expressed #feeling