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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. Maria Mitchell		Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins

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	Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins
	(1936-) US novelist; wrote novels Skinny Legs and All 1990, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas 1994.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.