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DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."MORPHEUS: "And I am far...more

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All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going lo...more

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he wo...more

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.Having admitted that, he woul...more

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In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

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You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me tha...more

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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip some...more

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Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in ...more

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When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

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There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and ...more

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Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them...more

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The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do wi...more

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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else ...more