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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
I'd love to play Constance in 'King John' or Paulina in 'The Winter's Tale.' I'd like to go on working till I drop.
There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.
'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'
The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.
The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.
I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'
I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.
I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
'Kris Kringle' is a holiday musical for a new generation - a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
The interesting thing about 'The Handmaid's Tale' is that everything that happens in it has happened or is happening somewhere in the world.
The real 'Lord of the Flies' is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.