Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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