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Faerie Tales, Quotes, Poetry, Stories, Legends and Lore

A page dedicated to one of my favorite pastimes...reading and writing...and gaining knowledge...gotta love gaining knowledge...if not...leave this room!!!

Quotes and Proverbs

All living creatures are led astray as soon as they are born, by the delusion that this relative world is real. -Bhagavad Gita-

The master said, Yu shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge. -Confucius-

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Yoshida Kenko-

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love oneanother. -Johnathan Swift-

And this is all that I have found-- the impossibility of knowledge!!! -Goethe-

True love will prevail. -Maria Reimann-

An excerpt from a short story...written by Ursula K. Le Guin

Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?

             This was to be a talk about fantasy. But I have not been feeling very fanicful lately, and could not decide what to say; so I have been going out picking people's brains for idea's. "What about fantasy? Tell me something about fantasy." And one friend of mine said,"All right, I'll tell you something fantastic."Ten years ago, I went to the childrens room of the library of such-and-such a city, and asked for The Hobbit; and the librarian told me,"'Oh, we keep that only in th adult collection; we don't feel that escapism is good for children.'"

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