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• Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

  Robin Sloan

  Warrior, Guy, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Records, Tales

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• He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

  Hugh Howey

  Fall, Men, People

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• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Keys, Doors

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• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

  Teri Garr

  Italian, Laughing, Guy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my energy adding extra magic and sparkle to other people’s lives to get them to love me. I’m busy casting spells for myself.

  Laurie Penny

  Growing Up, Hero, Men

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• All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Writing, Frustration

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Freedom, Two

  Opening Keynote Address video before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, gos.sbc.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

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• Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hilarious, Light, Twenties

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• Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  Kate Hudson

  Inspirational, Women, Names

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• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Cat, Laughing

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• Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Relationship, Pregnancy

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• I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Believe, Fall

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Practice, Two, Safety

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Thankful, Glowing, Shining

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Thank You Friend”

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• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Maps

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• The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Beer, Letters

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• Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

  Rick Perry

  Groups, Facts, Scientist

  "Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Boys, Men, Opinion

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1063, Delphi Classics

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• When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Hurt, Children

  Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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