Magic Quotes
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
Terry Brooks
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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
Northrop Frye
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Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
Dustin Hoffman
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There is love inside this madness. We are walking on the moon. Though I don’t believe in magic, I believe in me and you.
Beatrice Miller
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Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
Scott Ritter
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I ended up learning magic because you can’t trust the British to keep to an agreement over the long term.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords. (p. 302).
Marshall McLuhan
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I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
Cressida Cowell
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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill
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The house of magic has many rooms.
Eugene Burger
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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.
Sherman Alexie
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The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Humphrey Carpenter
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Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.
Brandon Mull
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong
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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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I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.
Dolly Parton
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Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.
Brom
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Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.
Eugene Burger
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Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.
Sandra Bullock
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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
Carrie Fisher
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I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.
Colin Thompson
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
David Bowie
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There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."
Ricky Jay