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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort ...more

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Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,pu...more

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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul --As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't m...more

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...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....

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...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms as "What does he m...more

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If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our head...more

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Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility...more

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The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left...more

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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

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The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized socie...more

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…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

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The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t ev...more