Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
“It is no news to me that tales of hidden races are as old as all mankind.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn” — Richard Due Copy Share Image
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. — Juan Antonio Bayona Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
It is what life tales are, questions without answers but taking part in being a tale of your own life directs you… — Meekness Tapera Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown,… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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