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• Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  World, Used, Used To Be

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage

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• Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.

  Josh Ramsay

  Strange Places, Strange

  "Fictional character: the Lost Prince". "Marianas Trench: Ever After", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

  Vernor Vinge

  Liars, Mouths, Fishes

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.546, Macmillan

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• Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

  Rupert Sanders

  Stories, Ever After, Happy Ever After

  "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, Character

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Wish, Today

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

  Vera Nazarian

  Profound, Stories, Matter

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• We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Mind, Stories, World

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• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Between The Lines, Knows

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Children, Long, Wicked

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Flight"), 1967.

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• Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever and always.

  Taylor Swift

  Baby, Believe, Eye

  "Forever and Always". Song by Taylor Swift, 2008.

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• In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fear, Sleep, Simple

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• Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Two, House

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

  Ursula Vernon

  Wicked, Littles, Woods

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• People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this one. Once upon a time, my wife and I had three small children -- two boys and a girl, just like in the story. And when they were young, we used to tell them a story very like YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES.

  Sam McBratney

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Sam McBratney (2007). “You're all my favorites”

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• Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

  Edmund Gosse

  Thinking, Errors, Parent

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• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

  Kate Bornstein

  Blow, Simple, Men

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• We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Feelings, Magic

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Independent, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Opportunity, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Independent, Used

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

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• That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

  Harry Crews

  Night, Decision

  Harry Crews (1998). “A Feast of Snakes: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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