Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 18

• And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Different, Wake Up, Sometimes

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• This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

  Alex Flinn

  New York, Cities, Tales

  Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

  Marc Chagall

  Stars, Air, Magic

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

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• There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

  Samuel Lover

  Motherhood, Voice, Childhood

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14

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• I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 14, 2000.

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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Ever After

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• The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Porridge, Tales

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

  Mira Grant

  Kissing, Wind, Glasses

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• The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

  Lauren Beukes

  Justice, Fairy, Tales

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Eye, Light, Wonderful

  Hans Christian Andersen (2011). “The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories”, p.902, Anchor

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Reality, Long Ago

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• No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, Lasts, Tales

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Stories, Fantasy

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Past, Years, Nurse

  "Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart Split" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 06, 2014.

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Kids, Dull

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• You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.

  Kelly Link

  Two, Hair, Pigs

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Statistics, Sometimes

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• Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

  William Irwin Thompson

  History Of Life, Natural, Form

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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