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• People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Simple, Civilization, Fairy Stories

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Legs, Deny

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Fighting, Men, Water

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• The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Tennessee, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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• Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Family, Powerful, Impact

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• The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

  Propertius

  Eye, Pioneers, Firsts

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• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Athlete, Thinking, Games

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• There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

  Diane Arbus

  Quality, Answers, Demand

  "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

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• I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Died

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• What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

  Homer

  Repetition, Tedious

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.207

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• He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

  Marie de France

  Tunes, Know How, Knows

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul - its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, which is the reward of our struggles.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Struggle, Soul, Depth

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• The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Animal, Stories, Fables

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• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, News Stories, People

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  Joan Chen

  Fairy Tale, Moments, Passports

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

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• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Medicine

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Doctors, Training

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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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• I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Perfect, Want, Fairy Tale

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Divorce, Mean, Independence

  "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

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• I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

  Gina Gershon

  Cat, House, Way

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Art, Media, Mind

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• If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

  Tom Petty

  Games, Imagination, Nursery

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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