Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

—Penn Jillette

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About Penn Jillette

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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, entertainer and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller. Known as Penn & Teller, the duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller:...

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

—Penn Jillette

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

—Penn Jillette

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Despair is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality — it is a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

—Philip Slater

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I know you'll leave. I don't have any grand illusions.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, . . . suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

—Philip Caputo

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

—Walter Scott

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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

—David Sedaris

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