#fairy tales

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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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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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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