Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

I'm a magician. A lot of people don't know that I've won awards. I used to do big stage shows.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

I'm a magician, not a singer.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.