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• I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking
• A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle
• It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt
• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones
• Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light — John Lennox
• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day
• There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. — Stephen Hawking
• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said,… — John Fowles

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