#fairy tales

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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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

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I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

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In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

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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

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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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