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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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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Whales, Bullshit

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Constellations

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• People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Children, Names, People

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  Julie Kagawa

  Real, Fairy Tale, Happy Endings

  Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.

  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

  Rain, Thinking, Green Plants

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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• Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.

  Max Horkheimer

  Mean, Fate, Men

  Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.

  Bill Maher

  Pain, Believe, Men

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

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• You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Teeth, Analysis

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Crush, Running, Jesus

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Long, Laughing

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• Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

  William Henry Hudson

  Flower, Moving, Bird

  William Henry Hudson (2010). “Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest”, p.111, The Floating Press

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• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Men, Dental Work

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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• Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, Exciting, Tooth Fairy

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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