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Quote by Hervey Allen

“Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.”

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Hervey Allen was an American author born on December 8, 1889, and died on December 28, 1949. He was known for his short stories and essays, which were characterized by humor and wit. more

“The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”

Men Should Humans Children Dies Father Left Should Have Died Absence Legends Outrage Fatherless

Author:Anais Nin

“I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.”

Keys Clothes Legends

Author:Ben E. King

“My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.”

Mother Destroyed Legends Garlands

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?”

Want Guy Grows Growing Up Shadow Legends

Author:Tavis Smiley

“In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.”

Ends Crafts Journalism Legends

Author:Tina Brown

“In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.”

Believe Mean Class Struggle Sea Expression Opposites Officials Legends Capitalist Invasion Class Struggle

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.”

Years Believe Cities Legends Mexico New Mexico Mexico City

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.”

Legends Lunchtime

Author:Rex Harrison

“Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.”

Knows Persons Literature Legends Rumor Nobody Knows

Author:Jeanette Winterson

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