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All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like th...

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Thomas LigottiThe Nightmare Factory

Come 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...

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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved...

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Logic 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...

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Disbelief 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....

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your ...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the arti...

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Tom RobbinsSkinny Legs and All

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally prese...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

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...

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hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...

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I 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 ...

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Whatever 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...

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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...

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The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're her...

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My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots o...

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But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and canno...

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For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is t...

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Trust 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 ...

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. ....

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To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to bre...

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I'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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Aleister CrowleyThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys th...

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...

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And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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...

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Magic'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...

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Arthur C. ClarkeProfiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven...

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The 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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9 likes Like Facebook_icon“Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make ...

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Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid groundi...

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Magic 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...

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He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such tim...

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C. J. CherryhFortress of Eagles

It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like be...

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Well 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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C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

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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C. S. LewisThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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 ...

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If 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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Cassandra ClareNothing but Shadows

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...

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She'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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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays in...

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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...

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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...

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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge p...

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I 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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Charles de LintThe Onion Girl

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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Charles de LintThe Very Best of Charles de Lint

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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Charles de LintWhat the Mouse Found and Other Stories

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

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...

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The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if...

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Magic 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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Clive BarkerThe Scarlet Gospels

Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your conn...

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