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Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons...

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Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound ...

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A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I use the word mystery,rather than magic.I love magic.something magic was always going to happen. Wh...

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Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The se...

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Time travel is such a magic concept.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing ...

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...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine ...

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Mercedes LackeyThe Fairy Godmother

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic p...

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I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she ...

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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

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In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the ...

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming t...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he look...

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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at tec...

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There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the peopl...

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...

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M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...

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When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...

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Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first phot...

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Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a ...

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Neil GaimanThe Books of Magic

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from ...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing s...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came....

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasion...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

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Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back ...

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Oscar WildeThe Fisherman and His Soul

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only imp...

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The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two obj...

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She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...

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I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, in...

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In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were o...

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There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, an...

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Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge bet...

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When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical li...

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There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ps...

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[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and hav...

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Peter J. CarrollThe Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist's Grimoire

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ...

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Peter J. CarrollThe Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist's Grimoire

Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - ...

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Peter S. BeagleThe Folk of the Air

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabit...

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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i...

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And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.

I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not e...

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Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told...

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For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animal...

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, But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother...

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No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world with...

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Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is.

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R. A. SalvatoreThe Last Threshold

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electri...

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forge...

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forge...

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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...

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You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books y...

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I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-...

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Richard DawkinsThe Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...

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Never get out of bed, never go to the window, and never look behind the curtain.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

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Robert GravesThe White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human s...

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Rod SerlingThe Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will far...

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It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a...

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It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did...

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...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver ton...

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Salman RushdieThe Enchantress of Florence

What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and rai...

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Scott LynchThe Republic of Thieves

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any ki...

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And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your ...

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Sergei LukyanenkoНовый Дозор

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

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But all the magic I have knownI've had to make myself.

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Shel SilversteinWhere the Sidewalk Ends

MagicSandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found ...

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Shel SilversteinWhere the Sidewalk Ends

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I thi...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-esti...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of th...

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Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a...

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The practice of magic also demands the development of what is called the magical will. Will is very ...

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StarhawkThe Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's sup...

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As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch ...

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There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years o...

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Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the so...

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You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillus...

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You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some probl...

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