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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties . . . I had read at least twenty of the [fairy tales] when I noticed something that had never struck me before--I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. All the…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c4/m-m-kaye-2-174703_fairy-tale_this-story-was-written-many-moons-ago-un_337310.jpg)
![“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which…” quote by J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3be/j-r-r-tolkien-204_anthropology_studies-on-the-origin-of-fairy-stories-a_2947633.jpg)
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