Magician Quotes - Page 9

• A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

  Lev Grossman

  Hurt, Strong, Pain

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.173, Penguin

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• Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Feelings, Lust, Mind

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• No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Order, Matter, Way

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2008). “Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Mr. John Dee and Edward Kelley”, p.18, Weiser Books

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• That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Thinking, Wizards

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• I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

  Lance Burton

  Teacher, Growing Up, Couple

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• Ever helped a Magician before? No? Well, you're not helping one now, either!

  The Amazing Johnathan

  Magic, Helping, Wells

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• People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession.

  Justin Willman

  Lonely, Hurt, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

  Pope Francis

  Divine, Wands, Creator

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

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• I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  Mike Rowe

  Mother, Dad, Broken

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Talking, Movement

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. 1998.

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• To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

  George Santayana

  World, Spirituality, Should

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.112, Рипол Классик

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• One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.

  Barry Nolan

  Finest

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• It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

  Susanna Clarke

  Curiosity, Curious, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.756, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Girl, Women, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.61

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• Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

  Piers Morgan

  Basketball, Song, Singers

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

  Alexander Herrmann

  Entering, Novices, Ease

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Time, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Fool, Body

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Mirrors, Samarkand, Shows

  "The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

  Terry Pratchett

  Common Sense, People, Magic

  "The Science of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1999.

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• The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.

  Cesar Aira

  Greatness, Magic, Use

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• Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

  Zeena Schreck

  Baby, Children, Sacred

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