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• The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Law, Steps

  "Heretics". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.

  Lily Collins

  Growing Up, Crazy, White

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

  Lily Collins

  Thinking, Everyday, One Love

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.

  Stan Lee

  Kids, Giants, Stories

  "Stan Lee explains what grownups crave as much as kids". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ocean, Self, Views

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

  Frederick Buechner

  Rain, Winter, Flames

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• Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

  Eric Metaxas

  Christian, Book, Fate

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• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Reading, Drawing, Ohio

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• Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve

  Happy Rhodes

  Kissing, Thinking, Long

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  Horace Walpole

  Silly, Discovery, Serendipity

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Fiction, Tales

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.269

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• When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Echoes, Once Upon A Time, Fiction

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• Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignorance, Hands, Support

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.2, Routledge

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• The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Real, Nba, Together

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• Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

  Robert Lopez

  Musical, Want, Tales

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• Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Writing, Criticism

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• I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

  Dolly Parton

  Art, Hair, Shoes

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• To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

  W. H. Auden

  Tales, Hunts, Symbols

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• I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

  Trudi Canavan

  Supernatural Elements, Stories, Literature

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• What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Toys, Add

  "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

  Lily Cole

  Dragons, Film, My Favorite

  "Talking About Fairy Tales with Lily Cole". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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