"Magicians guard an empty safe."

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Source : Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.16, Da Capo Press

Jim Steinmeyer

#Magic Quotes #Safe Quotes #Empty Quotes

“I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'”
“I have been a friend of Paul Manafort's for, I don't know, almost 50 years. We go back to Young Republicans together. He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and I choose to take him at his word.”

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“Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.”
“For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.”
“The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.”
“I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.”
“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.”
“We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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