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"Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic."
"My hobby is magic. I learned the rudiments with Murry Dickson from a fellow who was at our training camp in St. Petersburg in 1942 and liked it. I help entertain at parties and sometimes on trains."

Magic, sometimes spelled magick, is the application of beliefs, rituals or actions employed with the intent to manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces. It is a category into which have been placed various beliefs and practices sometimes considered separate from both religion and science.
"Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic."
"There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten."
"There is no magic in parchment or in wax."
"The abolition of magic will be a white stone on the path of the World. 249."
"Look at the children around you and you will find the magic curtain, magic indeed in this respect, that instead of dropping slowly down before your wondering eyes, it is growing up, unfolding and expanding some new beauty or exposing some well-remembered fault. What pleasure to note the many wonders of this all-revealing scene! What innocence in the sweet child face, what purity in the clear child eyes!"
"“Ambition wedded to sloth,” said Molnar. “Let no one say you don’t think like a true magician.”"