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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
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Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but…
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So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.
— William Shakespeare
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No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost…
— William Shakespeare
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they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell…
— Terri Windling
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Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has…
— Juliet Marillier
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and…
— Charles de Lint
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