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• Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Drama, Autumn

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• Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

  Colleen Atwood

  Reality, Chicago, Made

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

  Edith Widder

  Sea, Differences, Once Upon A Time

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• Fairy tales are more than true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dragons, Fairy Stories, Coraline

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• Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

  Alexander McQueen

  Brother, Tales, Grimm

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• We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Children, Green, Who We Are

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Dragons

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Christian, Jobs, Fairytale

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy, Tales, Constellations

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Thinking, Scientist, Great Science

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Real, Princess, Waiting

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

  Soman Chainani

  Real, Perfect, Problem

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• Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Thinking, Analogies

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• You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Males, Female, Lenses

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Dissident Gardens”, p.156, Random House

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• To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

  Robert Fulghum

  Empowering, Reaching, Tales

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.43, Ivy Books

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• No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

  Chris Murray

  Reality, Imagination, Achievement

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• I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.

  Lucinda Riley

  Believe, Hero, Godmother

  Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

  Paul Lemoine

  Adults, Evolution, Tales

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• Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

  Phoebe Stone

  Heart, Stories, Tales

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hurt, Stars

  Song: River That Flows Forever, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Dragons, Littles

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