“Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.”
Scott Jurek (1973) American ultramarthon runner
Source: Eat and Run (2012), Ch. 18, p. 182
“The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: The reason I got into magic was that it seemed to be what was lying at the end of the path of writing. If I wanted to continue on that path, I was going to have to get into that territory because I had followed writing as far as I thought I could without taking a step over the edges of rationality. The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all.
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