Because Quote by Silas Weir Mitchell

“Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

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Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

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I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

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The arctic loneliness of age.

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There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me…

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You see people on the street, talking to themselves, and you're like, 'What are they talking about?' I'm interested in that.

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He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such…

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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday…

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'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

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I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being…

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Death's but one more to-morrow.

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Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

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