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Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

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Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.

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Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

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It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

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She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs...more

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What is magic?There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of h...more

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that m...more

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Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the f...more

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That's what you people never understand," said Rincewind, wearily. "You think magic is just something you can pick up and use like a, a -""Parsnip?" s...more

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A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows.

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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it a...more

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That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroo...more

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We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been genera...more

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Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were l...more

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... darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simplyits absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side ofdark...more