"Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you."

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Source : Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.22, Da Capo Press

Jim Steinmeyer

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“The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”

Source : "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.
“In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.”
“The Lord instructs me not to judge any man.”
“Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.”
“The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.”
“You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.”
“We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.”

Source : William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....”

Source : "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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