Quotes 21 till 40 of 50.
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
The Guardian (15 May 2011) -
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.
A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 75 (1896) -
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
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If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
King John (1596) -
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) -
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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