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Alasdair MacLean
Alasdair MacLean

Alasdair MacLean, born on June 2, 1974, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. His life experience and contributions are limited by available information. more

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“When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.”

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Book:Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels
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“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

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Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
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