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• I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

  Susanna Clarke

  Dream, Country, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

  Jose Saramago

  Distance, Lying, Sleep

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• Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

  Anthony Davis

  Believe, Piano, Hearing

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• Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

  David Ayer

  Actors, Want, Tricks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rocks, Secret, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Fall, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Moon, White

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

  Blake Michael

  Melting, I've Learned, Really Cool

  "Meet the Cast of Lemonade Mouth!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Paper, Frogs

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

  Charles Fort

  Mean, Magic, World

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.180, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mind, Bed, Needs

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Thinking, Love Is, Magic

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• Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Pockets

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

  Susanna Clarke

  Years, Cities, Long

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

  Chuck Close

  Littles, Illusion, Made

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• The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

  Franz Bardon

  Moving, Soul, Magic

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• A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Hands, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

  Billy Beane

  Volleyball, Eye, Ideas

  "How computer analysts took over at Britain's top football clubs" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2014.

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• Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

  Greg Bear

  Strong, Kings, Warrior

  Greg Bear (2014). “The Serpent Mage”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

  Arthur Tress

  World, Association, Photographer

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• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  Tom Stoppard

  Artist, Men, Immortality

  "Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos". www.newyorker.com. December 19, 1977.

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• That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

  Ian Mckellen

  Technology, Imagination, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."

  Gaspar Noe

  People, Magic, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Stronger, Spokes

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