Magical Realism Books Quotes & Sayings

Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director. — Argus Hamilton

I had been in search of a model that would foster a global and open understanding, one that allowed me to shape my own belief system as I liked, informed by my own experiences and without having to conform to particular dogmas or doctrines. — Laurent Huguelit

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind. — Brian Dennehy

The killing of mature members of any species leads to a reduction not only in biomass and species density and diversity but also in that species' accumulated knowledge of how to most efficiently fill its ecological niche and interact with the rest of the ecosystem around it. The accumulated wisdom of the species is severely reduced or, sometimes, even lost in the process. Thus the tremendous loss of human languages around the globe that were generated out of thousands of generations of human interaction with specific habitats by unique groups and which encode unique understandings of ecosystem functioning is a tragedy greater than we yet know. — Stephen Harrod Buhner

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows
nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry
and it controls the breast. — Henry David Thoreau

and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother? To — George Eliot

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience. One Hundred Years of Solitude: I remember magical realism and that I enjoyed it. But that's about it. I don't even recall when I read it. About Wuthering Heights I remember exactly two things: that I read it in a high school English class and that there was a character named Heathcliff. I couldn't say whether I liked the book or not. — Joshua Foer

Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic panties of language — Tony Vigorito

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Demon," the woman spat onto the road. "Well, girl, thank you. I grant no one's wishes and so you mark me 'demon.' I grant no wishes and I do as I see fit to be done. I will not answer to you, girl, nor to any one of yours, but I will always look. I am not the one who turns away. — Tamara Rendell

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey

If you were anyone else, your nuts would be taking a long vacation, and the destination would be out of your mouth — J.A. Saare

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see. — Adam Beach

When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly. — Kazuo Ishiguro

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox