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"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."
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"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"
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"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
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"Can you not see, that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is-what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problem of the modern novel is-what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos."
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"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."
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"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."
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"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."
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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
Man
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
Happiness
"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."
Love
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
Love
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
Experience
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Man
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
Life
"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."
Religion
"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."
Creation
"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
Knowledge
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