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This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic. — Jordan Scott

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. — Alberto Manguel

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable — Carl Sagan

Our destinies are intertwined
like the stems of ivy on an oak tree. — Chris Tinniswood

Take off the glasses too." Lucy folded her hands. "I ... " Fable hesitated. "I'm afraid I can't see without them. I'm dyslexic, if you don't mind. — Cameron Jace

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. — Sally Jo Martine

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. — Yann Martel

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. — Neetesh Dixit

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. — Marie De France

Uh-uh, I would rather got hrough the front door and tackle the giants than have to life-saving-suck-kiss you for five minutes. — Chanda Hahn

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. — Ira Sachs

Fear will make a person grasp in desperation for answers--be they truth or fable. — Beem Weeks

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. — Barry Hughart

And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away. — Richard Crashaw

For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand. — Marcus Aurelius

Fiction or fable allures to instruction. — Benjamin Franklin

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

This isn't a game to me, Fable. This is my life. And I want you to be a part of it ... I want you and you only. I'm not sharing you with anyone else. — Monica Murphy

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). — Christopher Hitchens

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy. — George Ade

The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral? — Rick Riordan

Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way. — Rolf Dobelli

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon Bonaparte

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley

The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us! — Pope Leo X

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. — George Washington

A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop. — J.K. Rowling

I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie

Like a fable, Night when a Milky Way goes through the other Milky Way
My hope is standing
He walked with the speed of memories — Lewis Carroll

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners. — Karen DeCrow

Every myth has a modicum of truth — Lonny Lee

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz

The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce your grandfather. — Bauvard

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him. — Richard Corliss

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. — Thomas Paine

A text from Fable and it says one word. Marshmallow — Monica Murphy

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable. — George Meredith

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire

Pope Leo Xth is reported as saying, "The fable of Christ has been quite profitable to us. — Elliot George

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau

Nobody gets me like paper and pen — Lisa Sharpe

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands? — Zia Haider Rahman

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. — Northrop Frye

People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. — Charlotte Bronte

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this. — George Muller

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman

My mom was pretty dead on when she named me Fable, wasn't she? I don't feel real to anyone. — Monica Murphy

Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we are brought to this — George Muller

For once, I want to know what it feels like to be someone's first choice".
~Fable — Monica Murphy

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

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. — Richard Carlile