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• Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Children, Knights

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Tales, Conscience

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.8, Indiana University Press

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• I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Want, Economic

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• Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fairy, Hail, Tales

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Strong, Flower

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• Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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• Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Hell, End Of Life, Ends

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• In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

  Charles Dickens

  Age, Matter, Fairytale

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.15543, Delphi Classics

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• To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

  Nelly Sachs

  Reality, Tales, Seems

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

  Michael Bergin

  Missing You, Believe, Fairy Stories

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• The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Wife

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• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  Ralph Ellison

  Reality, Fairy Stories, Leaving

  National Book Award Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1953.

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

  Leo Rosten

  Children, Simple, Play

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Classic

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• And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

  Mike Myers

  Fun, Real, Silly

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• When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Years, Weight

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• I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

  Klaus Kinski

  Dream, Wish, Desire

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Philosophical, Letters

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• I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

  Paris Hilton

  Beautiful, Wedding, White

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• Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Heart, Reality

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• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

  Beverly Cleary

  Library, Tales, Reader

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• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Father, Leaving, World

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

  Amy Adams

  Girl, Hard Work, Shoes

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