Tales Quotes - Page 19

• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  Kit Williams

  Book, Character, Keys

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Hero, Dark

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• A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

  John Dos Passos

  Mirrors, People, Hatred

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• Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.

  Judah Leon Magnes

  Men, Israel, Flames

  "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.

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• Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Heart, Rich Countries

  "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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• I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

  Mario Testino

  Children, Kindness, Humility

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• To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

  Marc Chagall

  Understanding Nature, Would Be, Fairy Tale

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• I want to believe in the fairy tale.

  Monica Murphy

  Believe, Want, Fairy Tale

  Monica Murphy (2013). “One Week Girlfriend: A Novel”, p.39, Bantam

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• Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

  Robin Hobb

  Short Life, Past, Feelings

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• Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Art, Southern, Listening

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

  Charles James

  Real, Heart, Men

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

  Annabel Tollman

  Fairy Tale, Fairy

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• Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

  Graham Joyce

  Interesting, Fairytale, Spices

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• Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

  Willa Cather

  Talking, Bird, Tree

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Dust, Gold

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• I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Book, Nurse

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

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• I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Writing, Self

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• I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Way

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• He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Monsters

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hurt, Stars

  Song: River That Flows Forever, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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