"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."
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"Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world."
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"A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something."
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"Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere."
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"There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried."
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"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
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"Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face."
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"...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants."
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"When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"Do not be a magician - be magic!"
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"If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force."
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"Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.~Dork Diaries"
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"The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living."
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"in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen"
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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"DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic."
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"Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him."
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"In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature."
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"There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you."
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