Quotes from book
The Prestige

The Prestige
Christopher Priest

The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest.

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“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret… but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”

Christopher Priest book The Prestige

Source: The Prestige

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