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Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.


John Goldthwaite

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JOHN GRIERSON We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a g...
JOHN ROOS For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE Love is my religion - I could die for it.
JOHN KEATS Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
JOHN WEBSTER Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
JOHN LUBBOCK A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, ...
JOHN BERGER Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON