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A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

Stan Brakhage

Drama, Black And White, Discovery

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For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.

James Patterson

Zoos, Real, Animal

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Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

Jerry A. Coyne

Faces, Ancient, Scientist

"Nicholas Wade’s Ridiculous Prescription for Curing Creationism". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. November 28, 2012.

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[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

Sandra Cisneros

Writing, Trying, Stories

Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

Thomas B. Macaulay

School, Political, Doctrine

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A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Richard Whately

Class, May, Certain

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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Abraham Cowley

Lying, Fiction, Truth Is

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.161

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He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

Thomas Aquinas

Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

Gabriele d'Annunzio

Beautiful, Believe, Men

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Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.

Christopher McCandless

Giving, Support, Ignorant

The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987.

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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

Salman Rushdie

Thinking, Talking, Two

Source: www.pbs.org

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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

William Hazlitt

Delight

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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Horace Mann

Children, Alphabet, Said

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National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Joseph Joubert

Literature, Ends, Novel

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

Callimachus

Lying, Darkness, World

"Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology". Book by John William Mackail, p. 171, Epigram 14, 1906.

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The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Monique Wittig

Welcome, Myth

Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.51, University of Illinois Press

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[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Josephine de Beauharnais

France, Assuming

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That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.

Karl Pilkington

Animal, Together, Scorpions

"The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast (Season 3, Episode 2), 2006.

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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 to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.

Alvin R. Dyer

Life, Mean, Adversity

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Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

Marsilio Ficino

Beauty, Running, Hero

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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 happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

John Wain

Artist, Theatre, Consciousness

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If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird.

Lauren Groff

People, Fans, World

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Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

Anthony Doerr

Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.

Robert Aris Willmott

Cheer, Dark, Hands

Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.92

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One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).

Richard Arnold Epstein

Winning, Years, Calendars

"The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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