Don't the great tales never end?"
"No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mots clés character tales great-tales

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Jack amused himself by visualising her head creaking open on hinges concealed by her tartan Alice band, and releasing all the furry folk with which she populated her tales.

Helen Hodgman

Mots clés writing tales populated visualising

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Ci chiamano usurpatori, loro, che hanno usurpato ogni speranza per ciascuna generazione a venire, loro che tutto prendono senza nulla chiedere. Noi che abbiamo avuto l’ardire di strappar loro un pezzetto di terra per viverci in pace, loro che la terra la vogliono tutta per farci la guerra. Ci chiamano usurpatori, senza ricordare che i primi usurpatori sono loro, loro che hanno commesso il peccato maggiore, quel peccato che noi cerchiamo di accomodare. Loro hanno strappato la terra alla terra, l’hanno imbrigliata nelle cartine geografiche, stampata sugli stivali e sulle borse, hanno ucciso per mangiare e mangiato per uccidere, senza rispettare nulla che non fosse la loro fame di cibo e di morte. Noi non chiediamo niente, se non di vivere la vita che vogliamo, la vita che lassù non ci permettevano, perché non c’era abbastanza spazio per tutti. Entro il 2015 servivano settantamila dottori, tutti gli altri non servivano a niente. Un tempo, signori, non si era liberi, e si faceva quello che ti dicevano di fare. Adesso si è liberi, così dicono, ma quello che ti dicono lo devi fare lo stesso. Perché se non fai il dottore, allora fai la fame. Se non sei ingegnere, non lavori. Se non t’iscrivi nel ramo dell’industria, uno stipendio poi chi te lo dà. E sbranarsi e sventolare bandiere e strillare come scimmie per un boccone di pensione, quando sei troppo vecchio per gustartela, perché gli anni migliori della tua vita li hai passati a lavorare per loro. Vuoi fare l’insegnante – perché non prendi Farmacia? Vuoi essere archeologo – ma cercati un lavoretto buono. Vuoi scrivere – tanto, se non sei famoso, non ti pubblicano. E soffocare soffocare soffocare le ambizioni perché l’ambizione è peccato e non porta pane, l’ambizione è tempo perso, braccia sottratte alla produzione. E sempre un livore un livore nel petto a fare quel che è giusto fare, ma non quello che si vuol fare. Siamo morti in partenza perché volare basso ci uccide.

Chiara Pagliochini

Mots clés tales

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This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly.
"This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.

John Barnes

Mots clés stories thorns tales sleeping-beauty calliope amatus dead-princes

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The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

Mots clés stories storytelling study folklore fairytales tales human-endeavor

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Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.

Philip Pullman

Mots clés stories fairy-tales folklore tales folktales

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Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.

Amy Neftzger

Mots clés truth reality stories fiction fables real tales

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I think so. There are so many tales, so strange and beautiful and perfect. They are not what are real, but better. I thought I had something that was magic once, but I lost it, and now I don’t think it was at all.” She touched her chest where the handkerchief had been and frowned. “I wish there was magic. If all the tales were true, then maybe they could tell me what I’m doing, and what I am to do now.”
“Ah, now, don’t cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn. The question is, are we smart enough to figure for ourselves? Now, that’s what I’d like to know.

Shannon Hale

Mots clés wisdom tales

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The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.

Joseph Conrad

Mots clés tales

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Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

Mots clés life inspirational family freedom journey live lifestyle tales enjoy

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