“Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.”
Avram Davidson book The Phoenix and the Mirror
Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 11
“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
Source: The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories
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