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"It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone."
"All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't."
"Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic."
"We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are."
"The magic of property turns sand to gold."
"My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . .""
"You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing."
"Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life."
"I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union."
"O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating."
"T'is true: there's magic in the web of it."
"I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four."
"Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time."
"It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right."
"We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with."
"He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry."
"We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear."
"I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!"
"This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing."
"Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it."
