"The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art."
"I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic."
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Source: Secrets of the Magus by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. April 5, 1993.
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