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“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the "Whosoever" of John 3:16, are not so much concerned about the "Whatsoever" of John 2:5, "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.”
― Straight Paths for the Children of God
― Straight Paths for the Children of God
“When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.”
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