Magic Quotes
All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like th...
Show MoreCome up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...
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Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
Show MoreMusic is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved...
Show MoreLogic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.
Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will g...
Show MoreDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....

...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your ...
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The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the arti...
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When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally prese...
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Here is the most valuable thing in the whole of Moomin Valley, Groke! Do you know what has grown out...
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce...
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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil ...
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a ga...
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Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the...
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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need ...
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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
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They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when t...
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and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
Show Morehark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...
Show MoreI discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic,...
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How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There ...
Show MoreWhatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Wi...
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He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...
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Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...
Show MoreThe way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...
Show MoreThe human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're her...
Show MoreMy dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots o...
Show MoreBut it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and canno...
Show MoreFor me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is t...
Show MoreTrust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and ab...
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During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own ...
Show MoreYou never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. ....
Show MoreTo resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to bre...
Show MoreI've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...
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The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Ve...
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The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depa...
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cl...
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Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys th...
Show MoreIt is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...
Show MoreAnd sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling...
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...
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Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they c...
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Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old,...
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Eith...
Show MoreMagic's just science that we don't understand yet.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certai...
Show MoreAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven...
Show MoreThe same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.
Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself...
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Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid groundi...
Show MoreMagic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took ...
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The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by pa...
Show MoreHe could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such tim...
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It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like be...
Show MoreWell sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone woul...
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And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story whic...
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We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...
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Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.

Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ...
Show MoreIf you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.
The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't ev...
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You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So mu...
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One of us," said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds...
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Would you like me to magically strip you and put you in gear?” Mr. Fell asked. “In front of everybod...
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Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...
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Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twic...
Show MoreShe's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuou...
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That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays in...
Show MoreI want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...
Show MoreI do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...
Show MoreIt's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge p...
Show MoreI do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the wor...
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Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every ...
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any tw...
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Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up f...
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Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy ...
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all t...
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Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

Conner raised an eyebrow. 'Who told you
It's better to be the hero of your own story than to become the villain of someone else's.
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexl...
Show MoreThe audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if...
Show MoreMagic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey ...
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Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the...
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Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we mee...
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Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your conn...
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