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Brian Cowlishaw
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― The Silver Chair
― The Silver Chair
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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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.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
Infinite Winter 2016
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Infinite Winter (http://www.infinitewinter.org) is an online book club dedicated to reading David Foster Wallace’s 1,000+ page novel Infinite Jest. Jo ...more
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