"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."

Magic, Literature, Popularity

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"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."

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"We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that's not true. Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them, and then deem them so. Ryan and Avery will say the first moment they spoke, the first moment they danced, was magical. But they were the ones-no one else, nothing else-who gave it the magic. We know. We were there. Ryan opened himself to it. Avery opened himself to it. And the act of opening was all they needed. That is the magic."

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"We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn't the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn't of been proper."

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Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic"."

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"O, she's warm!If this be magic, let it be an artLawful as eating."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

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Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?"

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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