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“You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.”

Mind Believe Eye Desire Belief Magic

Book:The Magic of Believing

Source: The Magic of Believing

“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.”

Thinking Stills Together Lasts Desire Technology Magic Fine Becoming Computer Theater Going Away Becoming More Movie Theater Secluded Last Place

Author:Wolfgang Petersen

“The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.”

Humans Reason Desire Magic Worst Fellows Display Superiority

Author:Roberto Giobbi

“And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.”

Knows Way May Eye Age Spirit Desire Felt Black Known Darkness Magic Youth Blindness

Author:Lord Dunsany

“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”

People War Desire Brain Practice Magic Rational Primitive Sophisticated Stem Imperatives Coexist Love And War

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.”

Years Enough Desire Three Magic Tree Expression Thousand Mountain China Frustrated Thousand Years Monk Halfway Legendary Inexplicable Monasteries Bamboo Roost Swordsman

Book:Broken Homes

Source: Broken Homes

“If you don't get the ending you desire.... have faith in the magic of new beginnings.”

Ifs Inspirational Desire Magic Have Faith New Beginnings

Author:Rita Zahara

“Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.”

Humans Desire Race Magic Dues Sensuality Human Race Reconcile Fading Misanthropy

Author:Eric Hoffer

“It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication - whether it's TV, movies, or books - begins with somebody wanting to tell a story. That need to tell, to plug into a universal socket, is probably one of our grandest desires. And the need to hear stories, to live lives other than our own for even the briefest moment, is the key to the magic that was born in our bones.”

Needs Humans Book Moments Stories Age Desire Born Magic Tvs Communication Keys Universal Bones Live Life Plugs

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life