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Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: Â the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. — Frank Norris
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. — John Lescroart
Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind… — Joss Whedon
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built… — Bill Maher
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the… — Hunter S. Thompson
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and… — Anne Enright
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral,… — Ann Radcliffe
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of… — Mark Lynas
Why can't love be a fairy tale? — Amy Davis
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. — Joseph Addison
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American… — Armistead Maupin
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always… — Zadie Smith
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well. — Roald Dahl
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience, — Henry Louis Gates
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there… — Unknown Author
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the… — Catherine Asaro
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or… — Carolyn Porco
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized… — Robin Hobb
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. — Unknown Author
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least… — William B. Davis
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our… — Robert D. Putnam

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