"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated."
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"All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels."
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"It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid"
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"Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?" "Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?" I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. "Well, where do you put your elven magic?" I asked."
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"I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one."
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"You don't have to take any drugs to experience the Juggalo world. That's where the magic comes in. Because it's fresh and magical to the people who enjoy it and the people who love it all by itself without any substances."
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"A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live."
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"Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?"
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"The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we."
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"Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!"
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"What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls."
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"The better you are, the closer they watch."
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"And always, there was the magic of learning things."
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"I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems."
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"There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw."
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"You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour."
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"Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it."
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"Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it."
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"I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them."
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