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• I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Children, Father, Fire

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• I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

  Mike Myers

  Mother, Memories, Character

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• Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

  Max Stirner

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

  Amy Tan

  Kids, Stories, Gothic

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

  Mike Myers

  Fun, Real, Silly

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• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

  Layne Staley

  Reality, Light, Addiction

  "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.

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• I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Fairy Tale

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

  Marc Bloch

  Lying, History, Giants

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press

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• I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

  Alice Hoffman

  Emotional, Rivals, Fairy Tale

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• Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Fairy Tale, Hell, End Of Life

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• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  Kit Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Bored

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• I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Want, Fairy Tale, Partners

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• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Fairy Tale

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, God, Men

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

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• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Loss, Faerie

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.382, Macmillan

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• Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Country, Song, Farewell

  Hans Christian Andersen (1901). “Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Complete)”, p.811, Library of Alexandria

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• When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughing, Nests

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Tinkerbell, Certain

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.96, Jazzybee Verlag

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• David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

  James M. Barrie

  Feels

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.113, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Want, Gaps

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• She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Baby, Stars

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

  Mary Howitt

  Mother, Night, Knees

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