It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
Interpretation
Magic exists in the wonder of experiences, regardless of understanding.
This quote by Terry Pratchett emphasizes that the essence of magic lies not solely in the unexplained but also in the appreciation of the experience itself. Even when one understands the mechanics behind a magic trick or a beautiful moment, it does not diminish the enchantment and joy that it brings; rather, the knowledge can deepen appreciation and wonder.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the beauty of art and creativity.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
I love hanging and drawing and quartering_x000D_ Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
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