"It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will"
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"Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything."
"each separate flower has a magic all its own."
"There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas."
"Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time."
"The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love."
"There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details."
"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."
"Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself."
"I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do."
"Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details."
"In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily."
"I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry."
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
"Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up."
"What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible."
"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
"Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as."
"God is a scientist, not a magician."
""Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three."