Quotes by Fables Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel. Joyce Carol Oates scott-fitzgerald fables night The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes. Kenneth Clark fables men art The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become. Madame de Stael fables progress evil I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. Margaret Atwood fables moral animal [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. Mark Twain fables tradition religion The bearers of fables are very welcome. Monique Wittig myth welcome fables 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 tortoises fables tire One good turn deserves another. Petronius turns fables deserve What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us! Pope Leo X fables scary christ Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. Ray Bradbury fables teacher fiction The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. Richard Carlile fables earth christianity There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. Richard Brautigan sunflower fables men A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. Richard Whately fables may class Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people. Roger Ross Williams fables experts people Don't count your chickens before they egg. Ross O'Donovan fables chickens eggs 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 fables india two Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. Sappho fables fantasy love By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much. Stephen King fables too-much littles The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. Thomas Huxley fables creation bible The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. Thomas Paine fables mind believe «1234»
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