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Magic Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
- The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians:…
- Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that…
- I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the…
- I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
- in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
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- Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. — David Blaine
- Movies are like magic tricks. — Jeff Bridges
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