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There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it...

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One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

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C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragmen...

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Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality...

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Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp ...

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Tales of ordinary characters would appeal to a larger class , but I have no wish to make such an app...

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All stories are ultimately about the fall.

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not ...

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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that woul...

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I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a...

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Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and...

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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s fac...

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Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The wh...

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Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pa...

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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is ...

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Michio KakuEinstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books ...

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The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other...

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The problem with a lot of people who read only literary fiction is that they assume fantasy is just ...

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The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, ...

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I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for s...

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For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animal...

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And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our ...

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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you ...

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Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a r...

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Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who ...

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The prince is blind to subtlety. He knows his own ignorance and stupidity so is ever suspicious of o...

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He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as in...

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Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

Rincewind sighed, and padded around the base of the tower toward the Library.Towards where the Libra...

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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.

The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard ...

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Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...

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Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's a...

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Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fict...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer