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• Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Sweet, Gold, Littles

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul, Grenbry Outhwaite (2016). “Fairyland”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Inspiring, Famous Inspirational

  Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). “A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen”

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• I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Magic, Fairy Tale

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

  Rose Fyleman

  Sleep, Angel, Gold

  Rose Fyleman, “The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend”

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• Why can't love be a fairy tale?

  Amy Davis

  Emo, Love Is, Fairy Tale

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• Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.

  William Allingham

  Song, Morning, Waiting

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”

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• It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Children, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.

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• Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.

  Robert Graves

  Children, Heart, Fire

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

  Rose Fyleman

  Garden, Earth, Bottom

  Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"

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• 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

  Julia Roberts

  Crazy, Moving, Vanity

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• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Lying, Team

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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• There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

  Dawn French

  Taken, Order, Hey

  "A Tiny Bit Marvellous". Book by Dawn French, 2010.

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• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Fairy Tale, Tales

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.8, Indiana University Press

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• I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Death, Suicide, Dark

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Want, Fairy Tale

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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, Fairy Tale

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• Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

  John Milton

  Dream, Moon, Sides

  John Milton, Henry Stebbing (1836). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.25

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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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• Because you see 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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Baby, Boys

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

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• Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

  Martin Bormann

  Struggle, Land, Earth

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 873, 1993.

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• To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

  Nelly Sachs

  Reality, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Fall, Heaven, Fairy Tale

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