#magic

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#another #because #believed #capability #could

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#die #fame #few #magic #music

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#even #every #every second #force #illusion

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#learn #magic #poverty #pretty #solution

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#believe #cars #cling #convictions #drive

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#business #disbelief #force #government #into