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“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”

“I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.”

“Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

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“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

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"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."

— Red Haircrow

Literature1972

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— William Binney

Politics1943

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— Michael T. Flynn

Religion1958

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— Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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