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Benjamin Wilkins
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in Kilmarnock, VA, The United States
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, Neil Gaiman, Robert Lou
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"A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have..."
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong eno
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Daddy Feet
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2014
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On Miracles
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2011
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War Boy
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1938
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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
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