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• Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.191, Lion Fiction

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• Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

  Marina Warner

  Mother, Men, Maps

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• What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.

  Anna Seghers

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Anna Seghers (2013). “Transit”, p.186, New York Review of Books

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• Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

  Michel Ocelot

  Water, Ease, Language

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."

  Linda Miles

  Marriage, Hard Work, Needs

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

  Kim Kardashian

  Divorce, Fairy, Tales

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• The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Two, People

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• The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Salt, Aries

  "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection".

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• Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

  Ai Weiwei

  Voice, Mind, Internet

  "The Bold and the Beautiful". Global Times, November 26, 2009.

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• I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Love You, Giving

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• We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

  David Richo

  Hero, Character, Loss

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

  Tyler Perry

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

  Julianna Baggott

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

  Marina Warner

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Important, World, Information

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Self, Handsome

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  Laini Taylor

  Belief, Language, Tales

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Book, Feet

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• It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

  Laini Taylor

  Quilts, Here And There, Patches

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• They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

  Jane Yolen

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Teeth, Tales, Claws

  Ilsa J. Bick (2012). “Drowning Instinct”, p.309, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• Even as a kid, I read Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Kids, Reflection

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

  Kate Morton

  Mother, Children, Stories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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