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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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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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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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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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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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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

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Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. ↗

— John Howe

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