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«Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.»
«Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
again, be old enough, fairy, fairy tales, old, Old Enough, reading, readings, start, tales
«This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
casting, characters, Characters in, doubts, excepting, fairy, fiction, folk, imaginary, imaginary being, offend, thereof, The characters, This is a, unwise
«The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
briar, briars, fades, fairy, landscapes, nearer, thorns
«When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing,Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.»
«The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mystery,
Nature,
Words
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, charm, describing, enchantment, fairy, spell, terms
«Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience»
«When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
broke, fairy, first born, for the first time, laughed, skipping, skips
«Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, bird of, celebrated, dawning, fairy, nights, planets, saviour, The Bird, wherein, wholesome
«The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.»
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