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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Nature Fantasy Cartoon Must

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men Man Historical More

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hell Charity Heaven Earth

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Life Men End Easy

When you write a business fable, people get caught up in the story and don't get judgmental about what you're teaching them. If you're teaching a bunch of concepts, people get skeptical and say, 'Where'd you get that research?' But if you tell them a story, they get caught up in it while they learn.

Business You People Research

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

Best Night Thought Know

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

Teacher Heart Powerful Sleeve

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable.

God Future Bible Treat

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

Good Art You Think

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Jeanette Winterson

You New Rules See

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

Strength Marriage Women Beyond

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

Communication Problems Feeling Kind

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Internet Always Human Cave

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Gloria Vanderbilt

You Fantasy Fairy Tale Story

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Marie de France

I Am Mind May His

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Me Art Serious Playing

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Story Moral Temporary Eternal

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

Richard Corliss

Love Family Man Son

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Men Reason Logic Myth

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

Alfred de Vigny

Nature Man Truth True

I came on board 'Clown' because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?

Simple You Nice Story

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Beautiful Journey Support Mood

Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

Moon Aging Going Out

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