#fairy tales

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

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Laurence Housman

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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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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more. ↗

— Neil Jordan

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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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