#tale

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. ↗

— Kevin Durant

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A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale... ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#christmas #holiday #holidays #nutcracker #nuts

In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the dark of the woods is a motif common to fairy tales: young heroes set off through the perilous forest in order to reach their destiny, or they find themselves abandoned there, cast off and left for dead. The road is long and treacherous, prowled by wolves, ghosts, and wizards — but helpers also appear along the way, good fairies and animal guides, often cloaked in unlikely disguises. The hero's task is to tell friend from foe, and to keep walking steadily onward. ↗

— Terri Windling

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