Enchantment Quotes - Page 7

• I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

  William S. Burroughs

  New York, Thinking, Land

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Brother, Crazy

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• Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

  Kenneth Anger

  Evil, Soul, Definitions

  "Kenneth Anger: Where The Bodies Are Buried" by Mick Brown, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2014.

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• That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hero, Sacrifice, Difficult

  Lloyd Alexander (2015). “The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.173, Macmillan

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• To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

  John Lane

  Simple, Puritan, Frugality

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• [At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

  Conrad Aiken

  Music, Concerts, Algebra

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• The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Paradise, Opinion, Should

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, People, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.70, Stanford University Press

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Character, Autumn

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• Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Writing, Airplane, Thinking

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Moving, Past

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.722, Bantam

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• You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.31, Harper Collins

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