To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we. " This is the sorcery of literature.
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
