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

Nature, Characters, Fantasy

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte

History, Agreed

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

Men, Fact, Million

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton

Hell, Earth, Heaven

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson

Wanted, Write, Rules

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Yann Martel

Moral, Story, Eternal

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Alfred de Vigny

Nature, Truth, True

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

Mind, May, Counts

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman

Men, Reason, Rather

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