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I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.


Erin Morgenstern


#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.


William Morris


#experience #important #last #make #me

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.


Lucretia Mott


#bind #often #ourselves #rather #than

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.


George Murray


#big #big deal #books #deal #even

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.


John Murray


#changed #congress #elections #get #happen

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.


Story Musgrave


#giving #like #looking #need #often

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.


Vladimir Nabokov


#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#least #most #often #own #person

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.


Horatio Nelson


#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


#excess #faults #husbands #often #their






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