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

—Tom Robbins, 1976

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

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

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

—Robert Southey, 1809

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

—Italo Calvino, 1967

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986