#aandg

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AUTHORS & GENRES: j.k. rowling and low fantasy 

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: j.r.r. tolkien and fantasy 

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: margaret atwood and dystopia  

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: william faulkner and southern gothic  

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: jane austen and realism

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: edgar allan poe and dark romanticism 

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.” 

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AUTHORS & GENRES: william shakespeare and tragedy

“To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

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AUTHORS & GENRES: stephen king and horror

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”