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I’m not interested in deceiving people.
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
The performer will invariably dance around dishonesty rather than embrace it, indulging in a series of tiny untruths, not big lies.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

Master Mentalist Lior Suchard SHOCKS Owen Wilson, Jeff Goldbum & 'Late Late' Audience!
youtube.comThis book is about how it feels to be a magician-no dainty Robertson Davies concoction, but a man with saw cuts and rope burns on his hands and a fire in his soul for the devious art of putting the impossible on a stage.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
When Steinmeyer writes about the theater a century ago, he speaks as one who's met modern versions of the characters, who's even reconstructed their tricks onstage. So when, for example, he describes David Devant's Mascot Moth (which Steinmeyer reproduced in Doug Henning's Merlin),
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

His specialty was convincing each person that they had witnessed a near catastrophe.