I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

About This Quote

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense. If I am to help someone, I must first understand what is necessary to help that person. And, ultimately, it is their dream that is important.

Source: The Ladies Of Grace Adieu And Other Stories

Some Similar Quotes

1. Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts,... - Sylvia Plath

---

2. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Unknown

---

3. Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams;... - W.b. Yeats

---

4. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. - Charles Dickens

---

5. You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting. - J.m. Barrie

---

More Quotes By Susanna Clarke

1. He said, "Were he only like his sister–what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of...

---

2. Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.

---

3. When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing. .. A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.", 6 March 2012]

---

4. Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

---

5. I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

---