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• It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "Nobel Prize in Physics". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. March 18, 1991.

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

  Duane Gish

  Fairy Tale, Evolution, Fairy

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• '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 for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

  Walter Scott

  Love, Revenge, Fate

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.95

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• Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Drug

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.31, Arcturus Publishing

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• What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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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• With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

  Juliet Marillier

  Quiet People, Voice, Gone

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.259, Pan Australia

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• She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.

  Juliet Marillier

  Brother, Taken, Home

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• The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

  Marissa Meyer

  Moon, White, Snow

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• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Long, Stories, Done

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Fairy Tale, Ever After

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?

  Mark Walden

  Book, Hero, Winning

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• I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Sacrifice, Epic

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.130, Penguin

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• Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Night, Dragons, Rivers

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• I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Drama, Book

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• The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

  William Goldman

  Book, Princess, Adventure

  William Goldman (2007). “The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

  Rumi

  Pain, Laughing, Soul

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• And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
  And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
  And thereby hangs a tale.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, You Like It, Hours

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 26

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• To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
  Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Heart, Feelings

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Morning, World

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

  Anatole France

  Life, Love Is, Beef

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.28, 谷月社

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• Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
  And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
  In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
  They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
  And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
  At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
  The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
  And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Memories, Kissing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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