Tale Quotes
724 quotes by 559 authors
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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
— Margaret Atwood
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the…
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale…
— Amy Adams
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of…
— Lord Byron
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History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
— Graydon Carter
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship…
— Jack Kerouac
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
— D. H. Lawrence
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the…
— Li-Young Lee
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a…
— John Stamos
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,…
— Gore Vidal
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
— Jacob Burckhardt
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
— Walter Scott
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
— Isak Dinesen
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
— Adrienne Rich
Who Wrote These Tale Quotes
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