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15 of the best book quotes about showing
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“The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret... but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know.”
Christopher Priest
author
The Prestige
book
life
secrets
extraordinary
ordinary
illusions
knowing
looking
wanting
showing
magician
concepts
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“Volunteers from the audience sometimes participate in preparation. As the trick is being setup, the magician will make use of every possible use of misdirection.”
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“Then it flashed on him the reason she was standing was to show her confidence in him”
Roy Hobbs
Iris Lemon
characters
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“So this is a pageant. A violent one, meant to showcase a girl’s beauty, splendor—and strength. The most talented daughter. This is a display of power, to pair the prince with the most powerful girl, so that their children might be the strongest of all. And this has been going on for hundreds of years. I shudder to think of the strength in Cal’s pinkie finger.”
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“Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world.”
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“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die….”
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“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die….”
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“We have to show him! We have to show him that our way works!”
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“I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own being!”
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Throughout the author merely tells, rarely shows. Wording is awkward and often repetitive. The result is the ponderous text of a story about war and refugees that needs to be told, unfortunately.
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“I can stay up for as long as three minutes. I showed my mother, my father, and Fudge how I can do it right in the living room. They were all impressed. Especially Fudge. He wanted to do it too. So I turned him upside down and tried to teach him. But he always tumbled over backward.”
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“He thus became immensely Rich, And built the Splendid Mansion which Is called ‘The Cedars Muswell Hill’ Where he resides in Affluence still To show what Everybody might Become by SIMPLY DOING RIGHT.”
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″‘Like this?’ asked Mrs. Bear. And she lifted Choco and gave him a big kiss.”
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“But in the fifth year of his life, the little prince began to show signs of disturbing illness. There was a painful stiffness in his joints, he had a constant feeling of chill, and his face, which was normally so lively and expressive, was becoming masklike and rigid. Princess mariposa was worried to distraction, for he no longer looked nearly so handsome next to her.”
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“And so he went back over the sunny hills and down through the cool valleys, to show all his pretty kittens to the very old woman. It was very funny to see those hundreds and thousands and millions and billions and trillions of cats following him.”

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