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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
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. — Walter Scott
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
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. — Ronald Reagan
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. — William Shakespeare
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound… — Robert Breault
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A drink is shorter than a tale — Omar Khayyam
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from… — Rajneesh
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. — Unknown Author
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without… — Nevill Francis Mott
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss… — D. James Kennedy
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. — Duane Gish
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd… — Walter Scott
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it… — Julia Gillard
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors… — Kurt Vonnegut
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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