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• I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

  Richard Dawkins

  Garden, Agnostic, Bottom

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

  January Jones

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Ever After

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Gaps

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• Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

  Emma Thompson

  Christian, Children, Understanding

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

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  Alyssa Milano

  Angel, Cutting, Experiencing Everything

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

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• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Dream, Thinking, Perfect

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• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Other Worlds, People, Fruit

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Whales, Bullshit

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Constellations

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• People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Children, Names, People

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  Julie Kagawa

  Real, Fairy Tale, Happy Endings

  Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.

  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

  Rain, Thinking, Green Plants

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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• Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.

  Max Horkheimer

  Mean, Fate, Men

  Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.126, A&C Black

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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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• Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

  Marianne Moore

  Christmas, Fire, Yule

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.228, Penguin

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• It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Beautiful, Blue, Joy

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• The dead have need of fairy tales too.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Needs, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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• Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

  Jack Nelson

  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Believe, Santa

  Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.15, Delacorte Press

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