“ Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. ”
- Tim Curry- Copy
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“ I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. ”
- Mike Myers- Copy
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“ It's become a legend in our house, it's hard to separate myth from reality about this tournament. ”
- Venus Williams- Copy
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“ If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too. ”
- Joni Mitchell- Copy
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“ If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
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“ Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ”
- Gilbert Murray- Copy
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“ It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ”
- Tom Brokaw- Copy
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“ 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. 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- Copy
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“ All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. ”
- John Boorman- Copy
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“ Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. ”
- Charles A. Stoddard- Copy
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“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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