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Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

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You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow fo...more

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And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.

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When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I ...more

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I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye...more

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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a pl...more

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the coloniz...more

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He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impossible riddles. He may be the greatest hero of all...more

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There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)