"Magic never dies. It merely fades away."
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"And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better."
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"That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know."
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"A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course."
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"Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'"
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"Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'"
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"You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !"
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"There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain."
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"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name."
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"Magic things are fond of deceptions."
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"Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally."
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"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"
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"Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!"
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"The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension."
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"If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel."
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"You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again."
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"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
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"Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians."
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