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“Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but – quite simply – wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real.”
― The Magic of Reality
― The Magic of Reality
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
“Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water is as close as we can come on this earth to a visual symbol of the infinite?”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.”
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
“That’s what we both hate about fiction, or at least crappy fiction—it purports to provide occasions for thinking through complex issues, but really it has predetermined the positions, stuffed a narrative full of false choices, and hooked you on them, rendering you less able to see out, to get out.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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