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• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequer’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirror’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wand’ring where the heart delights to dwell.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Nature, Eye

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• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

  Jane Yolen

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

  Grace Kelly

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

  Charles Dickens

  Age, Matter, Fairytale

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.15543, Delphi Classics

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• Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

  John Milton

  Knights, Forests, Mets

  John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland”, p.323

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• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Nice, Fairy Stories, People

  "'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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• To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

  W. H. Auden

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Hunts

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• My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

  Freddie Mercury

  Butterfly, Wings, Yesterday

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• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.

  William Holman Hunt

  Eye, Wizards, World

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• I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

  Leo Rosten

  Children, Simple, Play

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• Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fairy Tale, Hail, Tales

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Two, People

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

  Paul Henderson

  Easter, West, Fairy Tale

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

  Colleen Atwood

  Sleep, Action, Fairy Tale

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• Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

  William Weld

  Easter, Real, Believe

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• All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

  Isla Fisher

  Wings, Nine, Married

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

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• Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Girl, Miracle, Action

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• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  Kit Williams

  Book, Character, Keys

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• My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

  Sarah Zettel

  Morning, Night, Sour Milk

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• A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Believe, Hero, Thinking

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Wise, Wall, Cutting

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• And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Effort, Dresses, Spirit

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