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I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel b...

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Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it i...

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What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dr...

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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to...

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But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I ...

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Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...

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Once again he was aware of eyes staring fixedly at him. He glanced sideways into the long, pointed f...

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You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...

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Terry PratchettThe Color of Magic

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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Ursula K. Le GuinA Wizard of Earthsea

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the...

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We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dream...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Farthest Shore

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a drago...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Tombs of Atuan

Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will...

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Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dange...

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The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and...

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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed m...

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I desired dragons with a profound desire.

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C. S. LewisOf Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...

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C. S. LewisThe Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

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Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs...

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We will carry your message. May your swords stay sharp," said Brom."And yours.

I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal,...

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You owe me. You roasted my father.

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Diana Wynne JonesDark Lord of Derkholm

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons ...

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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how smal...

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Dorothy L. SayersCatholic Tales and Christian Songs

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...

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Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....

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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have...

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Dragons are fire made flesh.

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom,...

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As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost...

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Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh...

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Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is i...

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Heywood BrounThe Fifty-First Dragon

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak."What will you do if...

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Heywood BrounThe Fifty-First Dragon

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost a...

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Heywood BrounThe Fifty-First Dragon

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his di...

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Heywood BrounThe Fifty-First Dragon

As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a w...

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I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in...

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It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

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J. R. R. TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally...

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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration...

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I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everythin...

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A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indi...

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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all ex...

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We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesThe Book of Imaginary Beings

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the ...

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Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...

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The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, tha...

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Patricia A. McKillipFirebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...

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How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths abou...

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Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little be...

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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trus...

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layma...

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Not that this deterred him and his friend Klapaucius from further experimentation, which showed that...

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Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...

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Tamora PierceThe Realms of the Gods