#fairy tales

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

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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

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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

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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

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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from. ↗

— Terri Windling

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There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. ↗

— Terri Windling

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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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

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