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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen,...

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Paolo BacigalupiThe Drowned Cities

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many le...

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the...

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Tennessee WilliamsAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth...

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Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wro...

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I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodg...

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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.''There i...

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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien