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"So Lightning says to Mud,"What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, "Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring."
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"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."
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"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
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"So Lightning says to Mud,"What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, "Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring."
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"How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
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"On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges."
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"The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings."
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"The more real things get, the more like myths they become."
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"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."
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"O weep for Adonis - He is dead.' 'Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life."
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"And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God."
Faith


"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
Purpose


"Because I want to be remembered."
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"I can't remember how to cry."
Grief


"Writing is a lonely business."
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"Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write."
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"My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel."
Family


"I didn't yet know that romantic heroes-famous and not-are usually aimless nomads in disguise."
Romance


"Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive."
Grief


"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."
Education
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