Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 14

• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

  Natalia Kills

  Believe, Tales, I Believe

  Song: Wonderland, Album: Perfectionist, 2011

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• I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Way, Facts, Tales

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

  Charlie Cox

  Stars, Real, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Women, Years, Lasts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, A&C Black

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• Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Grief, Giving

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• I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I don't respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. It has been going on for 1,000 years.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Islamic, Years

  "Bill Maher remains 'Politically Incorrect'". www.cnn.com. November 28, 2002.

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• Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

  Garrison Keillor

  Honesty, Rocks, Palaces

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• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Wine

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• Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Tales, Constant, Conditions

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Light, Different

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• “Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

  Gena Showalter

  Children, Character, Mean

  "The Darkest Night". Book by Gena Showalter, 2008.

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• He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Memories, Men, Ordinary

  Cheryl Strayed (2014). “Torch”, p.161, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

  Richard Siken

  Princess, Heart, Lucky

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• Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.

  Richard Siken

  Real, Vanity, Nuts

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• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Teeth, Tales

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• The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Believe, Adventure

  "Home Education".

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• It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It's just phenomenal. Words just can't really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Mom, Dad, Faces

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Adventure, Journey

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• My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Way, Kind

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Children, Thinking, Tales

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Symbolism, Magic

  Source: english.eastday.com

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• I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always problematic. They may end happily ever after, but someone's getting pushed into an oven or has blood in her shoe.

  Theodora Goss

  Writing, Dark, Shoes

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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