
AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies

Hearing how my friends had come to invent their tricks fueled my ambition. My goal at the start of this entire adventure had been to understand the mind of a magician, someone who sees the world through the lens of deception—people who strive, as a career choice, to hack the concept of reality for the entertainment of others.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
“There’s a moment in your life when you realize the difference between illusion and reality and that you’re being lied to,” Teller of Penn & Teller once said, referring to childhood figures such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “[But] if you’re sufficiently preoccupied with the power of a lie, a falsehood, an illusion, you remain interested
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Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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