By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and… — George Ade Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
