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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Step to this and get shanked up
  I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Teeth, Steps

  Song: Let 'em Have It 'l'

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• Uncertainty in the pressure 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

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Gone, Saws

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.277

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

  Thomas Browne

  Country, Believe, Angel

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.66

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• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

  John Donne

  Angel, Stones, Straws

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Gold, Fairy Tale

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

  Brian Froud

  Heart, Eye, Always Trying

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• Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

  Colin Thubron

  Dream, Adventure, Men

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

  Laura Amy Schlitz

  Girl, Adventure, Thinking

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• I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

  Natalie Portman

  Doctors, Mermaid, Vets

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

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• I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

  Richard Dawkins

  Garden, Agnostic, Bottom

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

  January Jones

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Ever After

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Gaps

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• Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

  Emma Thompson

  Christian, Children, Understanding

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

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  Alyssa Milano

  Angel, Cutting, Experiencing Everything

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

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• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Dream, Thinking, Perfect

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• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Other Worlds, People, Fruit

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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