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Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't... →
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that... →
Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost... →
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like,'Here I am holding a red ball.'
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
I'm a lazy sod.