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  1. I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of th…
  2. 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
  3. That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and e…
  4. And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes o…
  5. There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper …
  6. 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 …
  7. Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little mor…
  8. Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the i…

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