To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.
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Can you tell me what happened?"Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale.""You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else at this point would be a pick me up.
You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.
Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.
Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement.
Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.
Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
A tale never loses in the telling.
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Beware of him that telleth tales.
Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.
And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.
In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love with a young man who had to make frequent long journeys away from the city. When he sat with her at home, she used to trace the outline of his shadow that a candle__ light cast on the wall. Then, in his absence she worked over the profile, deepening, so that she might enjoy his face, and remember. One day the father slapped some potter__ clay over the gouged plaster; when the clay hardened he removed it, baked it, and "showed it abroad" (63).