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“Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?” The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?” Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth—not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? There is always that alternative, after all.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“At the same time that Irenaeus is writing, the Pagan philosopher Celsus only knows of Christian gospels which are all attributed to women.33”
― Peter Gandy, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

“Comfort wasn’t happiness, only the absence of struggle.”
― Deston J. Munden, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

“The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion