#magi

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#magic #painting #piece #see #you

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dragons #dungeons #fire #game #gold

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#fore #koreans #me #national #partition

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#cannot #comprehensible #context #crime #day

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know? ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#certainly #david #i #imagination #know

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#actually #awkward #doing #experience #going

In imagination, there's no limitation. ↗

— Mark Victor Hansen

#limitation

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#better #day #eventually #every #every day

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day