Fable Quotes

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Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what… — Robert McKee
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as… — Joo Won
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it… — Henry David Thoreau
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling… — William Booth
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage… — Alvin R. Dyer
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, -… — Marsilio Ficino
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.… — Thomas Paine
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has… — John Wain
RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable… — Ambrose Bierce
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a… — Eric Van Lustbader
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient… — Thomas Paine
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy… — Carl Sagan
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,… — Joseph Campbell
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which… — Alfred de Vigny
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson

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