"[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology."
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"History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth."
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"Fiction or fable allures to instruction."
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"Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality."
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"By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much."
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"Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman."
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"All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story."
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"National literature begins with fables and ends with novels."
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"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."
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"Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children."
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