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Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncin...more

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Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things.""Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a good one for unicorns?""No, bu...more

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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfort...more

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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-f...more

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Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.

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The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

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From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place wit...more

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

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When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I ...more

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I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye...more

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I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.

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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a pl...more