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Magician Quotes by Susanna Clarke
- How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without…
- I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But…
- Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,”…
- ..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he…
- Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read…
- Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and…
- It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.
- I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
- Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day…
- Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
- I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials,…
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- This one guy, the worse guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like… — Dave Attell
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