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"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
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"The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths."
"The Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants."
"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
"In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
"By the Valg, three were made,Of the gate-Stone of the Wyrd:Obsidian the gods forbadeAnd stone they greatly feared.In grief, he hid one in the crownOf her he loved so well,To keep with her where she lay downInside the starry cell.The second one was hiddenIn a mountain made of fire,Where all men are forbiddenDespite their great desires.Where the third liesWill never be toldBy voice or tongueOr sum of gold."
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"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
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