Quotes About Tale

His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me

This then is my story

Within the drama the Promethean Ahab challenges the laws of creation and dares to steal divine thunder in order to shape it to his ends, subordinating passive Ishmael to his will. But Ishmael alone has escaped to tell the tale and in that telling is the author of a new creation, subordinating Ahab to his purpose.

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Prose is subject to the polemic. The academicians can endlessly debate, defend, advance and argue over little facts. However, a tale is not so subject to debate. A story simply is. It conveys experience.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

That's another story, replied my father.

Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.

The doctor had asked him about the source of his anger, and Allander had exploded in a fit of verbosity. "So, Doctor," Allander had replied, "if that is what we can call you—you're certainly not a healer, but that's a different tale, isn't it? You'd like to know the source of my anger? I can speak your tongue. See if you can keep up.

D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.

Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.

It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my pukey sister, Georgia, and Leonardo the Silent sitting like rotting sardines in the back of a Hills Village Police Department cruiser.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Every story needs to be told in just the right way.

It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.

story was being broadcast over the British radio, and those with hidden transistors were finally learning the tale in tantalizingly vague bits and

If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning and switch off the set or set the book aside. Yet if it is too unfamiliar, we reject the story as unbelievable or incomprehensible. We demand some strangeness, but not too much.

Every man's death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us. We are not waiting for his history to be written. He passed here long ago. That man who is all men and who stands in the dock for us until our own time come and we must stand for him. Do you love him, that man? Will you honor the path he has taken? Will you listen to his tale?

You think that you can create a history of what has been. Present artifacts. A clutch of letters. A sachet in a dressing table drawer. But that's not what's at the heart of the tale. The problem is that what drives the tale will not survive the tale.

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.