Nonmystic Quotes & Sayings

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. — May Sarton

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much. — Tim Pratt

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good! — Christopher Vogler

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey

Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me. — Vicki Pettersson

War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin. — Mathilde Blind

You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them. — Charlaine Harris

We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an
inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community. — Parker J. Palmer