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"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
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"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naA ve at times, she wasn't stupid."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
"To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) " these three are the reasons the world's delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created."
"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
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"I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs."
"She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie."
"Anyone who thinks traditional and modern interpretations of demons are frightening had better remember that real angels inspired awe because they were so ghastly. How we usually think of angel is all due to Renaissance painters trying to sex up the concept. Most Christians, if they saw an angel in the flesh, would go run for their guns."
"I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried to run away from both. But her shadow was always there, and she only made more footprints by running."
"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."
"I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as 'flying saucers' to describe the motion of their flight, like a saucer skipping over water. Yet immediately after, people saw and photographed saucer-shaped objects. Boomerang-shaped objects were rarely seen. Now people mostly report seeing large triangles instead of discs or boomerangs, because that is what they are told to expect to see."
"My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it."
"Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein."
"American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial."
"My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars."
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