Fables Quote by Barry Hughart Download Open image “Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.” — Barry Hughart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fables Facts Shoulders Strong Truth
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You should never run from the truth - even if it don't suit you. The key is making sure it is the truth, not… — Uncle Phil Copy Share Image
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, the most incredible thing about 'Fable' is the fact that there are lots of examples where people play the game in a certain… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Fable' is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It's all about… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life” — أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny Copy Share Image
“The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?' 'Emperor,' I said promptly.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — 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 who have… — 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 belief. Men… — 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 up their… — 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 and fable-gatherer… — 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 love; there… — 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 things in… — 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 pedestal. Columns,… — 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. Then they… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
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