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Letter "T" » tales
«Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.»
«If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!»
Author: Shel Silverstein
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About:
Dreams
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Keywords:
bean,
buyer,
buyers,
come in,
dreamer,
flax,
hoper,
liar,
pretender,
pretenders,
sit by,
spin,
tales,
The Pretender
«Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Age
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Keywords:
again,
be old enough,
fairy,
fairy tales,
old,
Old Enough,
reading,
readings,
start,
tales
«Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
beaten,
beat about,
beat in,
beat out,
beat up,
dragons,
exist,
fairy,
fairy tales,
more than,
tales,
Tell,
The Beat
«Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.»
«In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.»
«I said I didn't respect religion . . . and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer. . . . So I don't respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. [It] has been going on for 1,000 years.»
«Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.»
«Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience»
«I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales»