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Category I: The Great Sir.

William Shakespeare;
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness upon them.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their entrances and their exits, and one man in his own time plays many parts.

Oscar Wilde;
Laughter is not all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is by far the best ending for one.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Life is far too important a thing to talk seriously about.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit" 
The heart was made to be broken.

I can resist all but temptation.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.


Edgar Allan Poe;
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dream ms no mortal ever dared to dream before.
I become insane, with long periods of horrible sanity.

We loved with a love that was more than love.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

 

John Dunne;

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Nature's great masterpeice, an elephant: the only harmless great thing.

 

Ernest Hemmingway;

Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I love sleep. Life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

*There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

"I'm not brave anymore, darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me."- A Farewell To Arms

"I am always in love."- from The Sun Also Rises

"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved eachother.-"from A Moveable Feast

Category II: Tales of the Upperworld.

Charles Perrault; (author of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood)
For you know that I am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Jacob Grimm;
How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.
No care and no sorrow
 

Hans Christian Andersen; (of The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling)
Where words fail, music speaks.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Being born in a duck yard doesn't matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg,
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; (better know as Lewis Carroll)
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round;
It's poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Dr. Seuss;
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,  nothing is going to get better. It's not.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
A person is a person, no matter how small.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (of The Little Prince)
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
(A/N: SEE KYUNGSOO?)


 

 

 


Author's Notes:
Hi, ZBabyz here. As you see there are two categories and ilikestars will probably add more prompts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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krystalclear007
#1
Chapter 2: Annyeong author-nim! when's the deadline for the entry?
violetarchangel
#2
Chapter 2: Hello :)
I don't quite understand the prompts. Please explain.
1. I want to choose Hans Christian Andersen as my prompt, so can I choose whatever fairy tales I like, or must I use the tales listed or the sentences stated?
2.Must I also include all these quotes as my prompts? Or just one? Or are they optional?
"Where words fail, music speaks.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Being born in a duck yard doesn't matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg,
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
3. Is the story compulsory to be about me, about Andersen or can it be about a random character?
Thank you!
Isabeaukiss
#3
author nim, in the form, there is written ( English as first language) what to you mean by that? And,, do I have to write the form in the comment box? Thanks..
ShinJinYoong
#4
Hi, do you still need judges? Thank you! :)
DGNA_Forever
#5
Chapter 1: When is the deadline?
marmalody
#6
Chapter 1: Hello!
Is there a prompts page?
KittyCatlovesMir
#7
Hey I heard you needed more judges?