Quotes with tales

  • It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
  • Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Carolyn Leigh Fairy tales can come true, It can happen to you If you're young at heart.
    Young at Heart (1954)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Audrey Hepburn If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Barry Ritholtz It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ian Mcewan It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aleister Crowley Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bayard Taylor Primrose-eyes each morning ope In their cool, deep beds of grass; Violets make the air that pass Tell-tales of their fragrant slope.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Santayana Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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