“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 accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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