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• In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

  Donna Shalala

  Children, Caring, Adults

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

  Michael Sheen

  Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

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

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

  Sigourney Weaver

  Fun, Three, Crowns

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• Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

  Joe Wright

  Sweet, Dark, Overcoming

  Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Believe, Comforting, Fairy Tale

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• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

  Regina Brett

  Father, Book, Reality

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• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Horse, Children

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• But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

  William Carlos Williams

  Wall, Liars, Mushrooms

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

  Stephen King

  Circles, Burning, Moisture

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Inspirational, Hero, Writing

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Childhood, Taught, Fairy Tale

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• There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Writing, Angel

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 20, 2014

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• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Zebras, Butterfly, Thinking

  Song: Little Wing

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• This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Horse, Stars, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• ..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Believe, Fall

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.21, 谷月社

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eggs, Castles, Ham

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.452, Random House

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• I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Stars, Queens, Perfect

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.16, Random House

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• Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Grief, Giving

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• Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.

  Susanna Clarke

  Angel, Healthy, Clean

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Gifting, Christening

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• Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Women, Years, Lasts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, A&C Black

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• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

  Lorrie Moore

  Character, Self, Play

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