Magic Quotes
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
Haruki Murakami
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No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
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So much magic lies beyond our fears.
Kathryn Budig
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Everything good, everythimg magical happens between the months of June and August.
Jenny Han
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I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
Diane Ackerman
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Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
Harry Houdini
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My gift to you is a magic wand which works with the following words: "In this moment, I choose love." Whenever you're in a situation you wish to change, just wave your wand and say: "In this moment, I choose love." Then watch the magic begin. Please accept this gift with my infinite love. I know you'll use it well.
Katrina Mayer
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
William S. Burroughs
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It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
Betsy DeVos
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
Charles Kay Ogden
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I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative.
Brett Dennen
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Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
Isabelle Fuhrman
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There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
Sidney Lumet
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Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
David Devant
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The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.
Chalene Johnson
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I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.
Matt Lanter
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
Sterling Beaumon
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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
Renzo Piano
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
Susanna Clarke