“The autodecrement is not magical.”

— Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

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“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”

Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land

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“The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Break, Blow, Burn (2005)

“We are magic. It is magic that we're walking around.”

Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist

Interview in Rolling Stone (9 November 1967)
Context: We are magic. It is magic that we're walking around. It's fantastic magic. Some people would call it miracles; I like to call it magic. … Yes, I'm very aware of this. Yes, the more aware I get, the more I can understand how big it is, how big it will get. It'll be harder to comprehend; that's why I have to go along with it, 'cause its so vast. To say to somebody that God is everything that lives and ever has lived and ever will live, and you're never going to touch and see, smell and be everything that is God. Magic is very hard to comprehend. <!-- Everyone's on their own, but they're not.