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Trust the tale, not the teller. — David Knopfler
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You… — Abigail Spencer
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that… — Amanda Burton
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever… — Jackie Robinson
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and… — Ellen Goodman
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very… — Madeleine L'Engle
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or… — Chang-Rae Lee
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… — Thomas Paine
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself, — Augustus
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as… — Henry A. Kissinger
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust… — Meg Cabot
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,… — Leo Tolstoy
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth.… — Valentina Tereshkova
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
The dead have need of fairy tales too. — Zbigniew Herbert

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