Susanna Clarke - Magician Quotes

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Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

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It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

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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 the benefit of bribes or patronage.

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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 long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

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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 in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

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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, he admitted, but a gentleman never would.

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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 I say that is great nonsense.

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