Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from… — Charles Villiers Stanford Copy Share Image
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. — Vincent Schiavelli Copy Share Image
For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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