Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and… — Arabian Nights Copy Share Image
“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“The Isle of Pines was Circe's isle, with white marble columns here and there in the dark, green, and pirates would be… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and take a deep breath, and like a gentle cloud the wonder of it all settles over me.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?” Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.” “To — Where’s that? What for?”… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia,… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
