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    I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

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    I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

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    Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

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    Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

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    I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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    Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

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    Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

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    Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

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    Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

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    Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

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    Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

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    Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

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    Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

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    My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

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    My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

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    Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

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    My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

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    My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

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    No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

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    Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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    My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

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    Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

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    No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

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    Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

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    Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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    Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

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    Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

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    Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

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    Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

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    Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

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    She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

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    Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

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    Sure, I love fairy tales.

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    The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

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    Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

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    The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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    Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

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    The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

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    The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

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    The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

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    The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

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    The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

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    The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

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    These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

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    The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

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    There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

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    To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

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    This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

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    This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

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    We have been poisoned by fairy tales.