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"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."
- Tecumseh of the Shawnee
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"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
- Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of our self."
- Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
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"I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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"There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam..."
- Robert Bringhurst
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"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
- Terry Pratchett, Mort
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"Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what."
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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