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"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."
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"A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com."
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"If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick."
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"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?"
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"I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you."
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"Life is a dancing dream."
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"The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid."
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"If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds."
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"Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn't matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting 'Hy-Brasil' on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can't manage that, then 'Here Be Dragons is better than nothing. Better than the void."
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"At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing."
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"Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too."
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
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"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
Success
"You will find my last words in the blue folder."
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"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
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"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
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"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
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"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."
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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
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"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
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