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• How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

  Han Nolan

  Honesty, Heart, Mean

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• Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

  T. E. D. Klein

  World, Unexpected, Chill

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• All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

  Karen Lord

  Stories, Life Story, Tidy

  Karen Lord (2010). “Redemption in Indigo: a novel”, p.1, Small Beer Press

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• Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled... Satan is anything but harmless.

  David Jeremiah

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

  Carlton Mellick III

  Fun, Smart, Fiction

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

  Henry James

  Fire, House, Stories

  Henry James (2010). “The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories”, p.154, Broadview Press

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• It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Years, Dying, Farce

  PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1913). “THE COMPLETE POEMS OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR”, p.94, Lulu.com

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• First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Dream, Ideas, Space

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• Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

  Arnold Arre

  Cat, Kids, Black And White

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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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• The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

  Plato

  Music, Simple, Simplicity

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Delight, Moral

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

  James M. Barrie

  Air, Mushrooms, People

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

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Children, Fairy Tale, Fairy

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

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

  Fritz Lang

  Heart, Mean, Hands

  "Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors". Book by Peter Bogdanovich, 1988.

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• Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, Obstacles, No Excuses

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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