Tales Quotes - Page 2

• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Fairy Tale

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• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

  Beverly Cleary

  Library, Fairy Tale, Reader

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Real, Imagination, Interesting

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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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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• 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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• Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

  Joe Wright

  Sweet, Dark, Overcoming

  Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. March 22, 2011.

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• If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Ideas, Nurse

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• Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Dragons

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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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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• 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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• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

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

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• I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

  Michael Bergin

  Missing You, Believe, Fairy Stories

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  Eazy-E

  Kids, Reality, Care

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Butterfly, Character, Blood

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• The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

  Megan McCafferty

  Who We Are

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.130, Broadway Books

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• Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

  Willa Cather

  Talking, Bird, Tree

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Dust, Gold

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• I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Book, Nurse

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

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• I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Writing, Self

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