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It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.
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An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
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He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.
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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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Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
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And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
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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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He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
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It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
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Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
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For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
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In the end is it not futile to try and follow the course of a quarrel between husband and wife? Such a conversation is sure to meander more than any other.
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I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
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Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
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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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How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
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The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.
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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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It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.
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It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.
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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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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
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November 1, 1959
(age 64)
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