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"Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic."
"Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science."
"Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact."
"The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield."
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"
"Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes."
"What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day."
"A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls."
"The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with."
"Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education."
"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along."
"Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love."
"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic."
"I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy."
"When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy."
"The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities."
"There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject."
"I don't believe in magic, either."
"I don't believe in magic."
"You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses. . . I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
