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

—Tom Robbins, 1976

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC