"You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans."
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"For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."
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"Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic."
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"Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action."
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"Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me."
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"I don't want realism. I want magic!"
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"Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality."
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"Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards."
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"Believe in yourself and believe in magic."
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"Music is Magic. Magic is Life"
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"The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic"
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"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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"But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself."
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"Science is magic that works."
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"Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes."
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"The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns."
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"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured."
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"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference."
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"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."
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"When you understand things, there's no more magic."
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