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If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

Children Come End Everything
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Think Dreams Come True
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Always Bad Bad Guy Black
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Authors Become Competitor Concerning
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Learned Next generation Value most
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It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Fairy Tale Fairy Patch Quilt
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Books Comic ComicBooks Discovered
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Also Child Confronting Fairy
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Legends attract Test Times Ideologies attract
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

About Fairy Know Magic
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Modern morality Manners Natural instincts Keep people
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Happiness Those palace Fairy tales Whose gates
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if the Bible is just a book of fairy tales, explain why it’s banned in 52 countries.

If bible A book Fairy tales It's banned
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