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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary no...more

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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] pow...more

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A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never ...more

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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

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What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, “Le...more

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -Haw...more

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...more

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I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by that partiality, that distancing fr...more

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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, ...more

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of ...more

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more