Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:   magic

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
~Sarah Caldwell

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.
~George Carlin

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment. Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow.
~Paulo Coelho

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There’s a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out.
~Lou Reed

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Prewritten Prompt circa 07/04:   escape

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I think there’s a gradient that goes from science to art, and magic is the middle ground. I think that we’re all trying to understand and define the world around us, but often it’s experimental.
~Vik Muniz

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won’t. It prefers to be unnamed.
~Terence McKenna

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The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
~Rudy Rucker

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science… Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.
~Scott Cunningham

One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
~Robert A Heinlein

There’s tons of magic in the world, and it’s all science.
~Martha Beck

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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~Thomas Szasz

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
~Aleister Crowley

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C Clarke

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
~Aaron Allston

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
~Aleister Crowley

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~Bertrand Russell

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
~Thomas Carlyle

But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.
~Shel Silverstein

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Posted From The Grove

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
~William Bolitho

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.
~Michael Chabon

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It’s about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.
~David Blaine

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.
~Eugene Burger

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There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.
~J K Rowling

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
~Penn Jillette

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They’re all hanging from a thread — sometimes literally.
~Penn Jillette

Magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it.
~Charles Bukowski

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
~Sidney Sheldon

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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
~David Copperfield

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~Ouida

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here’s a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn’t it?
~Karen Thompson Walker

One man’s magic is another man’s gluey torture session.
~Jackie Earle Haley

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
~W Somerset Maugham

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Half magic is no magic at all.
~Sharyn McCrumb

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
~Terry Pratchett

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
~Bernard Cornwell

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
~David Copperfield

Follow your passion. Magic has no formula.
~Tina Sharkey

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~Muteeb ahmed:  10 Bets You’ll Always Win   (3:03)   self-explanatory
https://vimeo.com/121432868

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~New York Times:  2 Magic Tricks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/smarter-living/how-to-do-2-simple-magic-tricks-and-why-you-should-learn-them.html?fallback

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~Zoraiz Mughal:  Magic   (0:36)   unimpressive, then…
https://vimeo.com/150000273

~Judy Colbert:  17 Secrets of Magicians
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/533621/secrets-of-magicians

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
~Plato

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it’s really like magic because you transform reality for people.
~Louis C K

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~Theodor Adorno

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~Ben Okri

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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
~Terry Pratchett

Magic lives in curves, not angles.
~Mason Cooley

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The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.
~Walt Disney

There is no magic in magic, it’s all in the details.
~Walt Disney

Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.
~Dorothy Morrison

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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
~Carol Moseley Braun

The impossible I do immediately, miracles take a little longer.
~David Berglas

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.
~Rob Corddry

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
~James Frazer

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true. The art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
~Starhawk

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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
~Rachel Carson

Nature is a petrified magic city.
~Novalis

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
~Francis Bacon

Effective magic is transcendent nature.
~George Eliot

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
~Paulo Coelho

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Magic doesn’t suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.
~Peter J Carroll

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
~Peter S Beagle

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.
~Starhawk

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.
~Rosemary Guiley

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~W Clement Stone

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
~Alice Hoffman

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Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.
~Jeff Guinn

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg

That’s when the magic happens — when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
~Adam Braun

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.
~Daniel Burnham

Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.
~Bill McCartney

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.
~Michael Scott

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But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
~Dave Matthews

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
~Laini Taylor

Transformation is a magical process, and there are conditions which are requisite to success: unwavering hope; pure and ardent desire; brooding devotion. If all the conditions are maintained, that intellectual vision is surrounded with a magnetic knot, through which the fiery, winged powers of the heart surge, until they have raised its rate of vibration a whole octave nearer to their own, and so have transformed it. Unwavering love is a magical power.
~A. D., in The Theosophical Quarterly, 1926

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To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.
~Peter Straub

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous — the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.
~Starhawk

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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough — there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
~Sir David Baird

Genius is another word for magic.
~Margot Fonteyn

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~Omeleto:  The Wonderful   (9:09)   the escape of magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6eR0p2HPA&t=11s

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~Omeleto:  The Katy Universe   (9:50)   being the speck on a speck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbOZ0OVxjs

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~Anne:  Magic   (2:01)   mixed media to mixed reviews
https://vimeo.com/155175737

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~Omeleto:  Superhero   (12:49)   how innocence dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZtUSDp1yQ

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~zainiy:  magic   (0:27)   visual pun, juvenile
https://vimeo.com/179152869

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Movies are like magic tricks.
~Jeff Bridges

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
~Stanley Kubrick

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
~Francis Ford Coppola

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Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
~Alicia Witt

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
~Natalie Wood

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
~Adam Savage

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
~Parker Stevenson

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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.”
~Jane Seymour

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away — meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.
~Emma Donoghue

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The magic doesn’t come from within the director’s mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
~James Cameron

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.
~Jennifer Stone

Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
~N D Wilson

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.
~Erica Jong

My idea of magic doesn’t have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
~Michael Jackson

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
~Rajneesh

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When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.
~Nia Vardalos

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.
~Patrick Troughton

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
~Andrea Thompson

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MUSIC:

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn’t matter how it happened, just that it did.
~Shannon Hale

Feed the body with a thousand pleasures and it is the same dead thing always. Only the spirit is capable of a multiplied life… Love is the magician’s wand that shows the secret riches of the most barren spot.
~Putnam

And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the world will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
~Lauren Oliver

It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
~Robert G Ingersoll

[L]ove is a magician who can make anchors of shadows and cables of cobwebs; can extract honey from gall, and gall from honey.
~Jane Harvey

Like a dragon, love is a magical paradox. Sometimes fierce. Sometimes tender. Always mysterious. Love is magical because we have spacious imaginations that allow us to be inside the reality of others.
~Kathleen Keating

Love is a magician that can make hearts change places in a second. Presto chango!
~Clyde Fitch

Love is a magical maze that intrigues lovers to get lost in its mystery…
~John Scott Williams

Love is a magician, it is Merlin. It changes the drabness of everyday, unfetters the soul and the imagination, transcends reality. It is an escape from the self.
~Rumanian Review

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~Ben Hecht

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Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
~Javan

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don’t know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.
~Phyllis Curott

And so our conception of religion is getting roomier and more inclusive today, and love is the magician who has enlarged the temple!
~The Christian Leader

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
~Novalis

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~Magic:  Rude   (3:45)   daddy said no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIh2xe4jnpk

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~Heart:  Magic Man   (2:53)   the music, not the man, is magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99bkAcLIas

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~Magic Magic Roses:  West   (4:06)   languid, dream-like
https://vimeo.com/24388983

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~Donald McCrea:  Magic   (4:09)   posts from the past
https://vimeo.com/139519503

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~Nina Simone:  I Put a Spell on You   (2:38)   Nina casting hers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2k52n_Bvw

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~Pilot:  Magic   (3:05)   bubblegum nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs

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~The Police:  Every Little Thing She Does is Magic   (4:20)   a very young Sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

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Music is the strongest form of magic.
~Marilyn Manson

There’s no way you can compare him [Hendrix]. You either have the magic or you don’t. There’s no way you can work up to it. There’s nobody who can take his place.
~Freddie Mercury

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, ‘I don’t understand why this is happening to me.’ There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
~Chad Kroeger

A few can touch the magic string,
and noisy fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
but die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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That’s the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it’s too controlled.
~Stephen Dorff

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn’t good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.
~Terry Pratchett

In my opinion, it’s more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it’s better to start with something real.
~Michel Gondry

You can’t be stuck if you’re not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what’s true.
~Geneen Roth

Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn’t climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny. It’s the first and only rule. Magic comes when you’re not looking for it
~Holly Smale

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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
~Alan Moore

What I’m doing is art – it’s low-brow art but there’s a magic in that.
~Kesha

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
~Brian Eno

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Being on stage is magic. There’s nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who’s out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it’s all over, I swear it is.
~Michael Jackson

It’s amazing, ’cause sometimes when we’re onstage, I feel like somebody’s just moving the pieces. I’m just going, ‘God, we don’t have any control over this.’ And that’s magic.
~Stevie Nicks

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
~Lesley Garrett

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https://gocomics.com

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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
~Tom Robbins

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

I don’t like magic — but I have been known to make guys disappear.
~Mr T

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
~Terry Pratchett

You know how teachers tell you the magic word is ‘please’? That’s not true. The magic word is ‘puke’. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.
~Rick Riordan

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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
~Chris Van Allsburg

We agreed with him in principal — we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
~Scott Dixon

Children see magic because they look for it.
~Christopher Moore

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of “déjà vu,” when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
~Eugene Ionesco

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.
~Jim Rohn

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
~Louise Bourgeois

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.
~Colin Thompson

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What’s the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it’s possible.
~Kanye West

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discussed. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.
~Libba Bray

If everybody knows all the tricks, it’s no more magic.
~Thomas Bangalter

It’s not about fooling somebody, it’s actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled.
~Vik Muniz

The casinos believe in math (and I don’t mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.
~Frank Scoblete

I don’t believe in magic, either.
~J K Rowling

There is no magic when one no longer believes.
~Hilda Lewis

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If we believe in magic, we’ll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we’ve suddenly made those beliefs real.
~Tony Robbins

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
~James M Barrie

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
~Shirley MacLaine

That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
~Charles De Lint

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I’ve seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
~Laurell K Hamilton

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can’t weave together a spell that you don’t believe in.
~Jim Butcher

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?
~Jon Bon Jovi

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
~Roald Dahl

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@Writers Platform

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
~Anais Nin

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
~Stephen King

When you’re an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
~Amanda Palmer

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
~Barbara Kingsolver

It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets. It weeps for the black people who think like white people. It weeps for the Indians who think like settlers. It weeps for the children who think like adults. It weeps for the free who think like prisoners. Most of all, it weeps for the cowgirls who think like cowboys.
~Tom Robbins

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
~Rene Char

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
~J K Rowling

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I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.
~Libba Bray

It’s not magic that takes us to another world — it’s storytelling.
~Val McDermid

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
~Norman Vincent Peale

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor
~Kenneth Grant

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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter’s imagination.
~Frank Auerbach

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
~Chuck Close

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea line meets the sky.
~Alfred Noyes

There’s magic in the water that draws all men away from the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
~Herman Melville

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one’s heart.
~Peggy Guggenheim

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
~Edward Steichen

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.
~Galen Rowell

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
~Trent Parke

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Poetry’s magic lies in the imagery which satisfies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
~Robert Bridges

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
~John Sterling

I don’t believe art is available; it’s rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
~Francis Bacon

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Here’s one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.
~Siddharth Katragadda

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Prewritten Prompt:   magic

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Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
~Jerry Saltz

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
~Vladimir Nabokov

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
~W Clement Stone

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
~Earl Nightingale

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.
~Sonia Choquette

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~Colin Powell

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
~Jim Rohn

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
~Seth Godin

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~Tom Peters

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The Exercise:

Crossroad #28

Lovelight dimming, now will it burn out
Anger is winning, how will it turn out
Love going dark, gothic and tragic
Enter forgiveness, light’s healing magic

Resorting to shaming, naming of names
Shaping escape with someone to blame
Or abide and reside at rapture’s resort
Working to thwart love’s day in court

Do we end alone, seal our fate, horrific
Or mend our home, finding faith terrific
Do we bid farewell, so long, good night
Can our love like the sunrise, reignite

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Opting Out

If on seeing backstage
how the magic is made
that the wizard is fake
Scratch me from the list
of a truth I would miss

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Karma or Consequence

Instructive tablets, the God-truth
Hand-me-downs of right and wrong
Sacred magic or Sorcerer’s curse
Karma ensues else Consequence rules
What-comes-back or Live-it-out’s prong
Judgements impale, but which is worse

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5s & 7s

to dream to create
give me the night for magic
the day is too real

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tree lines and grasslands
green hillsides stretching sky high
seeded by rain clouds
sunsets that promise sunrise
nurse at the magic of earth

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pity late life love
‘stead of luvin’ gettin’ hugs
lonesome, all else pales
welcome answer, sex for sale
pluggin’ fuggin’s’ magic drugs

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masters of priv’lege
casting votes demagogic
TRVTH mythologic
magic ballots for bullets
target colors for bullseye

shotgun their duties
care figs for democracy
triggers their bull$#!+

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If you go to a magic show, you don’t want to see logic.
~Willie Nelson

The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
~Hilda Doolittle

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I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
~Norman Mailer

And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
~Dar Williams

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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
~Philip Treacy

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
~Jackie Kennedy

Some of it’s magic and some of it’s tragic but I had a good life all the way.
~Jimmy Buffett

A little magic can take you a long way.
~Roald Dahl

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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
~James Earl Jones

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
~Charles de Lint

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~Wayne Dyer

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In politics there’s never a magic wand.
~Julia Gillard

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
~Ben Okri

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.
~Keith Barry

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~Tom Robbins

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I think that life is a friggin’ magic carpet ride — it’s amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.
~Elizabeth Lesser

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.
~Lucinda Riley

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone’s life.
~Penelope Cruz

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
~Julia Cameron

If you don’t get the ending you desire…. have faith in the magic of new beginnings.
~Rita Zahara

What if things happened to you — special, magic things — because you’d been preparing for them?
~Jennifer McMahon

There’s room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world — that’s what I think.
~Michael Morpurgo

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It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!
~Bill Watterson

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