Actual magic is oxymoronic. [pause] Might not even be oxy.
“You Don't Want To Know” · Season 4, Episode 8
In this episode: Gregory House (4), Thirteen (1)
FFlynn
The fun is in not knowing. [Dr. House appears to cut the magician's IV line, the magician looks worried]
The fun is in knowing. [He shows the magician his intact IV line, showing that he cut a piece of plastic tubing]
FFlynn
[exclaims] Oh, my head! Oh! I have a headache.
How bad? Is it new?
FFlynn
Oh! It's not too bad. I'll take one of these. [pretends to have a pill bottle in his hand, and pours out two real pills in his hand.]
Hm? Vicodin. [Dr. House pulls out his actual pill bottle, and shakes it, hearing nothing shaking in it]
FFlynn
People come to my show because they want a sense of wonder. They want to experience something they can't explain.
If the wonder's gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder.
What the hell is this?
Looks like an envelope with the results for the genetic test for Huntington's inside.
Did you look?
Thought it would be fun to find out together.
I don't want to know.
No, you're afraid to know.
I might die. So could you. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow, the only difference is you don't have to know about it today, so why should I?
I don't have to know the lottery numbers, but if someone offered them to me I'd take them.
You spend your whole life looking for answers, because you think the next answer will change something, maybe make you a little less miserable. And you know that when you run out of questions, you don't just run out of answers, you run out of hope. You glad you know that?
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