#fable

Natural history is not about producing fables. ↗

— David Attenborough

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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#courteous #generous #large #liberal #man

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#infinity #jazz #love #beauty

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Marie de France

#assured #counts #fable #his #i

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fables #faith #held #how #many

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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