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• Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Mean, People, Nerves

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• This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

  Richard Kadrey

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

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• I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Magic, Ears, Troll

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Children, Kids, Angel

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Night, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

  John Dufresne

  Father, Bedtime, Tales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Years, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Thinking, Play

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• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  Kit Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Bored

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• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Affection

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• We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

  Anais Nin

  Marriage, Tales, Has Beens

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• The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Pride, People, Citizens

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Opposites, Tales

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• The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Lying, Imagination, Vision

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• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Journey, Order, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Desire, Tales, Perceive

  Rudyard Kipling (1970). “A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself”

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• A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Believe, Hero, Thinking

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Hands, Mouths

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

  John Howe

  Dragons, Bridges, Fantasy

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• We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Peculiar, Tales

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.17, Quirk Books

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• I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

  Lotte Reiniger

  Funny, Truth, Humorous

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• I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Lasts, Fairytale

  Charles Boner, Mary Russell Mitford (1871). “Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years”, p.123

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• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

  A. S. Byatt

  War, Dark, World

  "Happy ever after" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Being A Woman, Domain

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