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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

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.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

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

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

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

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.