A Quote by Jack Prelutsky
If you don't believe in dragons,
It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you.
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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.
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.
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