#fairy tales

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#bad #bad guy #black #cape #easy

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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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

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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 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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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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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations. ↗

— Gary Ross

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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. ↗

— Amy Tan

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