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Mary-Peyton
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“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
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“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
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“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”
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Mary-Peyton’s 2025 Year in Books
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