#parable

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#both #estates #fools #given #great

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#culture #delightful #earth #garden #me

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#children #comparable #era #house #kennedy

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #comparable #everything #friends #friendships

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. ↗

— Robert Stack

#book #california #comparable #desert #find

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#each #enjoys #individual #individual member #inseparable

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#call #honorable #i #i believe #incomparable

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#morals #parables #stories #humor