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My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 ma...

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?""No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a ...

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Deepak ChopraThe Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to pu...

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I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has ...

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After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to s...

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He gave Sophie the smile which had no doubt charmed the Witch of the Waste and possibly Lettie too, ...

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Is something the matter?” Calcifer asked. “Yes. My heart. There was a scarecrow at the door!” Sophie...

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Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle

...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Merlin Conspiracy

Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, af...

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Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He...

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Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and stranger...

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Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a ...

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Donna TarttThe Goldfinch

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unl...

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E. T. A. HoffmannThe Golden Pot and Other Tales

He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresist...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that sur...

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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned

The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are s...

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There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it ...

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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nic...

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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to ...

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If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happ...

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You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it ...

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Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to m...

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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a...

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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know ...

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She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magi...

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Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all it...

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Franz KafkaThe Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pot...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each ...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.

And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...

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There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved f...

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My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif...

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Gerald DurrellMy Family and Other Animals

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

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There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's r...

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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Na...

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My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Han...

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The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ......

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This is the story of a boy named Pete Coutinho, who had a spell put on him. Some people might have c...

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A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the...

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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object...

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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wa...

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For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel d...

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الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة

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Isabel AllendeLa suma de los días

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch...

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The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ri...

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Italo CalvinoSix Memos For The Next Millennium

You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do ...

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Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

Why would anyone bother making door-keys shrink?’ said George.‘Just Muggle-baiting,’ sighed Mr Weasl...

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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protect...

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I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen...

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves alre...

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I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Prime Minister gazed hopelessly at the pair of them for a moment, then the words he had fought t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talkin...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

...but it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Ha...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Only Muggles talk of the ‘mind reading.’ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry―yer a wizard.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Oh, are you doing magic? Let’s see it, then.”She sat down. Ron looked taken aback.“Er — all right.”H...

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Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: w...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The...

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power...

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Touch magic. Pass it on.

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Jane YolenTouch Magic: Fantasy

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really sayin...

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Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

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Jasper FfordeThe Last Dragonslayer

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforesee...

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magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, usi...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecti...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

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Jasper FfordeThe Well of Lost Plots

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life an...

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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you ...

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See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other ...

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My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like th...

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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare ...

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You need to know where to go,' Sanya said.'Yes,''And you are going to consult four large pizzas for ...

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Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intan...

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Do you really think you can win?''Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thi...

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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin...

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I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part o...

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Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black...

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Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, ...

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I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the ...

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One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, st...

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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There ...

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