quotes about Magic Realism

“When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.”

“Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.”

“He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.”

“Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."”

“When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

Source : Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

“Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.”

“... everything I do, I choose very, very carefully, because if I don't like it, I can't make you like it.”

“My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.”

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Source : Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.