There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die... MARK LAWRENCE The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"... PENINA MEZEI In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep ove... CORMAC MCCARTHY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and... MARYROSE WOOD How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the... JAMES C. DOBSON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audie... PETE POSTLETHWAITE In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till ... URSULA K. LEGUIN One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or... NEIL GAIMAN A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology a... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta... PENINA MEZEI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak... REGINA DOMAN There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a... GORE VIDAL Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f... TOM SHIPPEY That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up ... ERNEST CLINE I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the... TARUN BETALA Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both v... FREDERICK BUECHNER When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will t... CORMAC MCCARTHY Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Sun shines on my back as I walk away Sun shines on my chest and I return The fall air is c... BRENT M. JONES Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single bran... STEVEN MILLHAUSER At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of t... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t like anything here at all.” said Frodo, “step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and... J.R.R. TOLKIEN What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh... WENDELL BERRY The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry... MATT DAMON Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” ... CHRIS WOODING I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored? So we could be grateful... MAX LUCADO The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor... WALTER BENJAMIN I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. I... PHILIP PULLMAN I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a... THEODORA GOSS All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM The masses live their lives as defined by terms given by society. For example: this is what it means... C. JOYBELL C. It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where t... FREDERICK BUECHNER Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived... FREDERICK BUECHNER Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo... MARK TWAIN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... LISA KLEYPAS They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will... JAMES ROZOFF This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y... TERRY PRATCHETT Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. GENA SHOWALTER What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One. ANITA B. SULSER This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whate... THOMAS LIGOTTI Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a tru... CHARLES DICKENS Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates fi... ERIN MORGENSTERN The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... lo... ILDEFONSO FALCONES Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His K... THOMAS MERTON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. PAULO COELHO It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ... URSULA K. LE GUIN What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had whi... IGOR ELISEEV Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history conn... TONI MORRISON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Inside us all are pieces of that which makes the neagitve. Demons are neither good nor bad. Like you... SHERRILYN KENYON There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made ... GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. A ... JAMES DEAN A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... 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CORMAC MCCARTHY Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doin... CORMAC MCCARTHY All The Pretty Horses CORMAC MCCARTHY He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. CORMAC MCCARTHY We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks. CORMAC MCCARTHY I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur... CORMAC MCCARTHY I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. CORMAC MCCARTHY A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I thin... CORMAC MCCARTHY Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? CORMAC MCCARTHY It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib... CORMAC MCCARTHY Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El... 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CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY