#marvelous

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. ↗

— Aberjhani

#classic-quotes #faith #grace #hope #ignorance

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event.' Once the event is satisfactorily explained (and sometimes it is never explained), we have left the fantastic for an adjacent genre - either 'the uncanny,' where the apparently supernatural is revealed as illusory, or 'the marvelous,' where the laws of ordinary reality must be revised to incorporate the supernatural. As long as uncertainty reigns, however, we are in the ambiguous realm of the fantastic. ↗

— Howard Kerr

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ↗

— Aristotle

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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. ↗

— Rupert Everett

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. ↗

— Barbara Bush

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It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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