“There is no magic when one no longer believes.”

Quoted in Survey of Contemporary Literature (1977) by Frank Northen Magill, p. 4263

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people... I've lived through impossible situations. So I believe in it. I just believe, and that's the magic... That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it. And I refuse, like, since I'm still alive and done the things I've done and seen things and understood things as far as I have, and I am alive, I mean physically intact. When I shouldn't be, according to medical reports and so forth. I mean I should be, not here. That's all there is to it. So the magic's working and it's a rare situation.

1870s, Second Inaugural Address (1873)
Context: The subject of acquisition of territory must have the support of the people before I will recommend any proposition looking to such acquisition. I say here, however, that I do not share in the apprehension held by many as to the danger of governments becoming weakened and destroyed by reason of their extension of territory. Commerce, education, and rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed all this. Rather do I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Source: The Ship that Flew (1939), Ch. 1 : The Magic Begins

Elizabeth Costello (2003)

Source: Solipsist

Source: The Green Mile

Quote from Boccioni's text 'Dynamism of a Speeding Horse & Houses', 1914/15
Boccioni is here referring to the starting photography of 'moving horses' c. 1914
1914 - 1916